Mike Goode

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. 2001, University of Chicago

Office: 437 HL, 443-6133
Email: mgoode@syr.edu

Interests: British Romantic Literature and Culture; History of the Novel; Early Victorian Literature and Culture; Historiography (history & theory of history-writing); Heritage Industry; Conspiracy; Poststructuralist Critical Theory; Gender Studies

Publications
Works-in-Progress
Selected Presentations
Academic Awards and Fellowships
Courses Taught

Publications

“Blakespotting,” PMLA 121:3 (May 2006): 769-86.

“The Man of Feeling History: The Erotics of Historicism in Reflections on theRevolution in France,” ELH 74:4 (Winter 2007).

Knowing Seizures: Julian Barnes, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Erotics of the Postmodern Condition," Textual Practice 19 (2005): 149-171.

“Dryasdust Antiquarianism and Soppy Masculinity: The Waverley Novels and the Gender of History,” Representations 82 (Spring 2003), 52-86.

“Mediating Romantic Historical Novels,” Romantic Pedagogy Commons (forthcoming, 2007).

Book review, Book review, Mark Salber Phillips, Society and Sentiment : Genres of Historical Writing in Britain , 1740-1820 , Modern Philology 102 (2005): 465-67.

Book review, Book review, Jacqueline Labbe, The Romantic Paradox: Love, Violence and the Uses of Romance, 1760-1830, Keats-Shelley Journal 53 (2003): 236-37.

Book review, Margaret Russett, Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845. Modern Philology 105 (forthcoming, 2008).

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Works-in-Progress:

The Feeling of History: Romantic Historicism, the Historical Novel, and the Politics of Manly Sentiment, 1790-1890, book project currently under consideration for publication.

“Re-Cutting Mary Shelley’s Monster,” journal-article-in-progress.

Romanticism’s Invisible Hands: Historicism in an Age of Conspiracy Theory, book project currently in its early research phase.

“Caricature and the Romantic Public Sphere,” essay for The Efflorescence of Caricature , ed. by Todd Porterfield, forthcoming book collection.

“The Joy of Looking: What Blake's Pictures Want,” journal-article-in-progress.

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Selected Presentations

“The Joy of Looking,” conference paper, Blake at 250 Conference, York , UK , August 2007

“Liberation from Boredom in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey ,” BARS/NASSR Annual Conference, Bristol , UK , July 2007

“Repaying History's Interest: The Economy of Boredom in Rob Roy and Northanger Abbey ,” Victorian Studies Research Group, Rochester , NY , May 2007

“Unsound Minds in Unsound Bodies: A Brief Intellectual History of Caricature,” “Efflorescence of Caricature” conference, the University of Montreal and the Montreal Musée des Beaux Arts, in conjunction with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, March 2006

“Reading for the Plots: Walter Scott and Romantic Conspiracy-Mongering,” BARS Conference, Newcastle, UK, July 28-31, 2005; and NASSR Annual Conference, special session on “The Conspiratorial Wink: Representations of Political Intrigue,” August 13-17, 2005

“Blakespotting,” Romanticism, Historicism, History Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales, June 18-22, 2004

“Canon Fodder: How Jane Austen Survived the Culture Wars,” CNY Jane Austen Society, April 25, 2004

“Re-Cutting Mary Shelley’s Monster,” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 2003

“Feeling History: Scott’s ‘Dedicatory Epistle’ and the Problem of Cultural Translation,” M/MLA conference, Cleveland, OH, November 1-3, 2001

“Ethics and Authority in the Classroom,” The Pew Lectures on Teaching in the Humanities, Chicago, IL, September 1999

“‘Randy for Relics’: Eroticism and History in Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot,” “Presenting the Past” Conference, Franke Humanities Institute, Chicago, IL, April 1998

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Academic Awards and Fellowships

James L. Clifford Prize for outstanding article on an 18 th -century topic, ASECS (2007)

Graduate Teaching Award, English Department, Syracuse University (2006)

NEH Summer Seminar Participant (2005)

Tolley Junior Faculty Summer Grant (2004)

Summer Professional Development Fellowship, Reed College (2001)

Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship, University of Chicago (1999-2000)

Norman Maclean Fellowship, University of Chicago (1998-1999)

Mellon Foundation Summer Research Graduate Fellowship (1998)

Century Scholarship, University of Chicago (1994-1998)

Rotary International Graduate Fellowship (1993-1994)

National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar Award (1992)

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Courses Taught

Graduate
The Romantic-Era Novel, Fall 2007
Heritage Culture, Spring 2006
Historicism and Postmodernity, Spring 2004

Undergraduate
The Mysteries of London , Spring 2008 (at SU London Centre) Romanticism and Tourism, Spring 2008 (at SU London Centre)
Jane Austen in Context, Spring 2006 and Spring 2007 (includes short-term SU Abroad component)
History and the Subline, Fall 2005
Historicism, Fall 2005 and Fall 2007
Urbanization and Mystery in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel, Fall 2004
Romantic Geographies, Fall 2004
The Historical Novel—Past and Postmodern, Spring 2004
The Romantic-Era Novel, Fall 2003
The Figure of the Romantic Poet, Fall 2003

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