Barbara Goff

Barbara Goff
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge, University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisorDonald Mastronarde
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineClassical reception studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Reading
Notable worksCitizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece

Barbara Elizabeth Goff is a Classics Professor at the University of Reading.[1] She specialises in Greek tragedy and its reception; women in antiquity; postcolonial classics and reception of Greek political thought.[2][3]

Education

Goff undertook her undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge. She later completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley on Euripides' Hippolytus supervised by Donald Mastronade, publishing the work as The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus in 1990.[4]

Career

Goff's first job was as a Junior Research Fellow at King's College Cambridge. She has also worked at the University of Texas at Austin, and held a Solmsen Fellowship at the Institute for Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.[5][6]

Goff moved to the University of Reading first as a Reader in Classics, subsequently becoming Professor of Classics.[6][1] She leads modules focusing on ancient drama, ancient Greek language, ancient sport, and sexuality and gender in the ancient world.[1][7]

Goff's work on classical reception has led to lectures and publications on classical education and reception in west Africa,[8][9][10] including participation in the founding of the Classical Association of Ghana in 2018.[3]

Research groups and centres

At the University of Reading, Goff is a member of the Ancient Literature and Classical Tradition and Reception groups in the Department of Classics.[11]

Goff is a member of the Ancient and Modern Imperialisms Network, based in Reading and helps to run the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network,[12] based in Reading, and is an executive committee member of the Classical Reception Studies Network, based at the Open University.[13]

Goff is on the international editorial boards of the Classical Receptions Journal (published by the Oxford University Press)[14] and of Elektra (University of Patras)[15] and is on the advisory board of the AHRC project 'Classics and Class', based in King's College London.[16][17] She also works with the Iris Project to promote classical education.[18]

Books

  • Goff, B. (1990) The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.[19] ISBN 0-521-36397-7
  • Goff, B. (ed.) (1995) History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama (University of Texas Press)[20][21]
  • Goff, B. (2004) Citizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles[22][23][24][25]ISBN 9780520239982
  • Goff, B. (ed.) (2005) Classics and Colonialism. Bloomsbury.[26] ISBN 9780715633113
  • Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (2007) Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and dramas of the African Diaspora. Oxford University Press, Oxford.[9] ISBN 9780199217182
  • Goff, B. (2009) Euripides: Trojan Women. Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. Duckworth, London. ISBN 9780715635452
  • Goff, B. (2013) 'Your secret language': classics in the British colonies of West Africa. Classical Diaspora. Bloomsbury Academic, London.[10] ISBN 9781780932057

References

  1. ^ a b c "Staff Profile:Professor Barbara Goff". University of Reading. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  2. ^ Karapanagioti, Niki (2 February 2018). "Daughters of Antigone". The Classics Library. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Classics and Global Humanities: launching the Classical Association of Ghana". CRSN. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  4. ^ Goff, Barbara (25 January 2007). The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521033237.
  5. ^ Goff, Barbara; Goff, Professor of Classics Department of Classics Barbara (14 June 2004). Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520239982.
  6. ^ a b Pollock, Griselda; Turvey-Sauron, Victoria (2007). The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781845115210.
  7. ^ "The Sacred and the Feminine: Image, Music, Text, Space". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 5 December 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Niobe of the Nations, with Barbara Goff". Classics Confidential. 19 November 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  9. ^ a b Simpson, Michael; Goff, Barbara (1 December 2007). Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217182.001.0001. ISBN 9780191712388.
  10. ^ a b Lambert, Michael (2013). "Reviewed Work: Your Secret Language: Classics in the British Colonies of West Africa. Classical Diaspora by B. Goff". Acta Classica. 56: 202–209. JSTOR 24592553.
  11. ^ Stead, Henry. "Upcoming Film Season in Reading (Jan–Feb 2017) | Classical Reception Studies Network". Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  12. ^ "The Legacy of Greek Political Thought".
  13. ^ People. 25 July 2017 https://classicalreception.org/page-1/. Retrieved 20 June 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  14. ^ "Editorial_Board | Classical Receptions Journal | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  15. ^ People http://electra.lis.upatras.gr/index.php/electra/about/displayMembership/6. Retrieved 20 June 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ^ "King's College London – Classics and Class in Britain, 1789–1917". King's College London. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  17. ^ "Classics & Class " About us". 19 February 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  18. ^ "The Iris Project – About Us". irisproject.org.uk. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  19. ^ Halleran, Michael R. (1990). "Review of: The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  20. ^ Goff, Barbara E. (5 June 1995). History, Tragedy, Theory Dialogues on Athenian Drama Edited and with an introduction by Barbara Goff. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292727793.
  21. ^ Ormand, Kirk (1998). "Review of: History, Tragedy, Theory: Dialogues on Athenian Drama". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  22. ^ Goff, Barbara (2004). "Citizen Bacchae". Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece (1 ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 9780520239982. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt1pns7d.
  23. ^ Sinos, Rebecca H. (2007). "Citizen Bacchae: Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece – By Barbara Goff". Historian. 69 (2): 376–377. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2007.00182_51.x. ISSN 1540-6563. S2CID 144535872.
  24. ^ Furley, William D. (2005). "Review of: Citizen Bacchae. Women's Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  25. ^ McClure, Laura (25 June 2007). "Traces of Power: Recent Books on Women in Antiquity". Journal of Women's History. 19 (2): 184–192. doi:10.1353/jowh.2007.0041. ISSN 1527-2036. S2CID 143685543.
  26. ^ Bloomsbury.com. "Classics and Colonialism". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 20 June 2019.