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Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
ELIZABETH SWANSON
CURRICULUM VITAE
18 Dexter Avenue Babson College
Sandwich, MA 02563 231 Forest Street
774.313.0159 Wellesley, MA 02457
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, Miami University of Ohio, 2000
M.A. English, Northeastern University, 1993
B.A. English, Northeastern University, 1988
TEACHING AND COMMUNITY AWARDS
Lewis Institute for Social Innovation Changemaker Award, 2012
Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award, Babson College, 2012
Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2009
Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2008
Professor of the Year, awarded by student vote, Babson College, 2007
Women Who Make a Difference Award, Babson College, 2007
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Babson College, 2006
Innovators Among Us Award (for pedagogical innovation), Babson College, September 2004
Outstanding Teacher Award, Miami University, 1995
RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANTS
Faculty Scholarship Award, Babson College 2012
Mandell Family Term Chair, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 2007-2012
Babson Teaching Innovation Fund Grant: 2012
Graduate Student Achievement Award Scholarship, Miami University, 1996
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Miami University, 1995
Graduate Student Writing Award, Northeastern University English Department, 1992
BOOKS, EDITED JOURNALS, AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
Slaveries Since Emancipation: The Past and the Challenge of Human Bondage in the
New Millennium. Ed. James Brewer Stewart and Elizabeth Swanson. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2017.
Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore and
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. Modern Language Association Options for Teaching Series, 2015. “Introduction: Charting New Courses: Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies,” 1-10.
Human Rights and Cultural Forms. Ed. Greg Mullins, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, and
Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Special Issue, College Literature. Summer 2013.
“Introduction: On Texts and Performances,” 9-14.
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and
Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2011. “Introduction: Human Rights andLiterature: The Development of an Interdiscipline,” 3-19. “Epilogue,” 261-264.
Special Issue, Peace Review: A Journal for Social Justice. Theme: Film,Literature, and Human
Rights (20:1) Spring 2008. “Introduction,” 1-3.
Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers
University Press, 2007.
PEER-REVIEWED ESSAY PUBLICATIONS
“Defending Slavery, Denying Slavery: The Problem of Indifference in Historical
Perspective.” With James Brewer Stewart. Slaveries Since Emancipation: The Past
and the Challenge of Human Bondage in the New Millennium.Ed. James Brewer Stewart
and Elizabeth Swanson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Forthcoming 2017.
“Introduction: Getting Beyond Chattel Slavery.” With James Brewer Stewart. Slaveries Since
Emancipation: The Past and the Challenge of Human Bondage in the New Millennium.
Ed. James Brewer Stewart and Elizabeth Swanson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
Forthcoming 2017.
“Freedom, Commerce, Bodies, Harm: The Case Against Backpage.com.” Social Inclusion,
Special Issue: Human Trafficking, Siddarth Kara, Ed. Forthcoming, Summer 2017.
“Gendering Human Rights and Their Violation: A Reading of Chris Cleave’s Little Bee.” In The
Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Ed. Sophia A. McLennen and
Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2015. 60-68.
“Beyond the Post/Colonial and the West.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. In Teaching
Human Rights and Literature and Cultural Studies. Ed. Alexandra Schultheis Moore and
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg. New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2015. 53-67.
“Victims, Perpetrators, and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse in Post-Palermo Fiction about
Sex Trafficking.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. The International Journal of
Human Rights. 16:1 (2015). 16-31.
“‘Let Us Begin with a Smaller Gesture’: An Ethos of Human Rights and the Possibilities of
Form in Chris Abani’s Song for Night and Becoming Abigail.” With Alexandra
Schultheis Moore. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. 45:4 (2014).
59-87.
“Human Rights.” In Critical Terms for Gender Studies. Ed. Catharine R. Stimpson and
Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 139-155.
“Meditations on a Fractured Terrain: Human Rights and Literature.” With Alexandra Schultheis
Moore. In College Literature: AJournal of Critical Literary Studies. Special Issue:
Human Rights and Cultural Forms. Ed. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, and Greg Mullins. 40.3 (Summer 2013). 15-37.
“‘Accorded a Place in the Design:’ Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema.” Screening Torture. Ed.
Michael Flynn and Fabiola Fernández Salek. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 167-190.
“Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and the
Indivisibility of Human Rights.” Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and
Literature. Ed. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2011. 103-119.
With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. “Old Questions in New Boxes: Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here
andthe Problem of Transnational Witnessing.” Special Issue:Gender and Humanitarian Narrative.” Ed. Samuel Martinez. Humanity. Spring 2011. 233-253.
“Cross-Currents and Convergencies: Emerging Paradigms.” With Madhu Dubey. The
Cambridge History of African American Literature. Ed. Maryemma Graham and Jerry Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 566-620.
“Plotting, Finally, the Human: Unsettling the Manichean Allegory in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge
and A Distant Shore.” South Atlantic Review. Special Issue: Caryl Phillips. Ed. Hunt
Hawkins. Summer 2010.135-154.
“War Film during the War on Terror: Displacement and Indirection.” Kulturausausch.
December 2006.
“Who was Afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the Ethical Imagination in Lumumba:
La Mort du Prophet.” Terror, Media, and Liberation. Ed. J. David Slocum. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, Depth of Field Series, 2005. 248-266.
“What’s a Cultural Studies Curriculum Doing at a College Like This?” with Danna Greenberg.
Liberal Education: Journal of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. September 2004.16-25.
“Living the Legacy: Pain, Desire, and Narrative Time in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.”
Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. 26:2 (Spring 2003). 446-472.
“Splitting Difference: Global Identity Politics and the Representation of Torture in the Counter-Historical Dramatic Film.” Violence and American Cinema. Ed.
J. David Slocum. New York: Routledge, 2000. 245-270.
“The Way We Do the Things We Do: Enunciation and Effect in the Multicultural
Classroom.” Teaching African-American Literature: Theory and Practice. Ed. Sharon Pineault Burke and Maryemma Graham. New York: Routledge, 1997.
151-177.
REVIEWS, CASES, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Review: Mark Bracher, Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics,
& Schema Criticism. American Literary History Online Review, Series VII (1). Summer 2016.
“On Happy Endings.” End Slavery Now. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
5 November 2014. Web.
“Made By Survivors: Business Solutions to Human Trafficking.” With Gaurab Bhardwaj. Babson
College Case Series, Babson College, 2014.
“Review: African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations, and Boundaries.” Journal of the African
LiteratureAssociation. Fall, 2012.
“What Price Progress? The Case of India’s Sardar Sarovar Dam Project.” With Neal Harris.
Geneen Case Series in Business and Ethics. Babson College, 2007.
Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000). Ed. J. Gray. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American
Poets and Poetry. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 2005. 201-204.
“Review: Through Your Eyes.” Dir. Eva Urrutia and Guillermina Buzios. The Americas: A
Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History. Fall, 2004.
“Review: Jon Stratton’s Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities.” Culture
Machine. May 2003.
Poems: “Body Language,” “Legacies,” “Gathering Fruit.” A Sense of Place: An Anthology of
Cape Women Writers. Ed. Anne Garton. Eastham, MA: Shank Painter Publishing, 2002.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Doubling the Voice: Survivors and Human Rights Workers Address Torture, Resistance, and Hope. Co-Editor, with Alexandra Schultheis Moore.
INVITED LECTURES
“Thinking and Acting: Academic and Activist Pathways for Graduate Students in the
Humanities.” Career Pathways Seminar, Professor Maryemma Graham, Kansas State
University. 14 December 2016.
“On Women and Leadership.” Women’s Leadership Speaker’s Series. Experion Systems,
Boston, MA. 9 September 2015.
“Gender and Human Rights: Women Empowering Women Empowering…Everyone.”
Women2Women International: Babson Day. Babson College, Wellesley, MA. 5 August, 2015.
“Nurturing Corporate, Academic, and NGO Partnerships in Delivering Responsible
Management Education.” 2nd Annual Conference on Responsible Management Education, IILM, Delhi, Delhi, India.3-5 January 2015 (video presentation).
“State of the Field: Fighting Human Trafficking, 2014.” World Boston: A World Affairs
Council.Boston, MA. 11 December 2014.
“The Power of Partnership: Business Innovations in the Fight Against Slavery.” Slavery Then,
Today, and Tomorrow: A Lecture Series. Institute for Humane Studies, Augustana
College. Sioux Falls, SD. 9 April 2015.
“Beyond the Law: The Power of Human Connection in the Fight Against Slavery.” Northeast
Regional Model United Nations Conference,International School of Boston. 4 April
2015.
“Business Solutions to Human Trafficking.” Guest Lecture, Seminar in Business and Human
Rights, Professor Deborah Leipziger. Simmons College MBA program, 21 February
2014.
“Concentric Circles: Keys to Cosmopolitan Engagement.” Keynote. Widows and Orphans
Forum. Boston, MA. 9 November 2013.
“More Radical Than Thou: Politics and Posturing in the Reception of Sex Trafficking
Narratives.” Historians Against Slavery Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH 23 -25
September 2013.
“From Survival to Freedom: Evolving Strategies for Reintegration in the Aftermath of Sex
Slavery.” Boston Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights. University of
Massachusetts, Boston. 12 March, 2013.
“Surviving Brothel Slavery: Reintegration in the Context of Changing Repatriation Law.”
Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati. 4 March 2013.
Gallery Exhibition and Lecture, “Harbor: Survivors Among Us.” With Elshafei Dafalla
Mohamed. Artand Ideas Series: Peace and Conflict. Framingham State University, February 27, 2013.
“Survivors Among Us: An Exploration of Voice, Genre, and Human Rights.” Wellesley
College,“Conversations About Human Rights Across the Disciplines.” 7 February 2013.
“Teaching Literature and Human Rights.” With Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Research
Programon Humanitarianism, Human Rights Institute. University of Connecticut,
October 2, 2012.
“Entrepreneurship and the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts Classroom.” Hiram College, 17 May
2012.
“Meditations on a Fractured Terrain: Literature and Human Rights.” Keynote. HumanRights
and the Humanities Conference, American University of Beirut, May 7-9 2012 (unable to attend; co-author Alexandra Schultheis Moore presented our work)
“Fighting Trafficking with Empowerment, Education, and Hope.” Tufts University, University
Seminar: International Perspectives on Children in Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances. November 18, 2011.
“Going ‘All In’: Multi-Sector Partnerships to Fight Human Trafficking.” The Five Elements of
Civil Society: A New Approach to Participation in Fighting Human Trafficking. The Protection Project Sixth Annual Symposium on Trafficking in Persons, Johns Hopkins University, 7 November 2011.
“Re-Abolition: What to Do about the Global Sex Trade.” Wellesley College International
Relations Club. 22 April, 2011.
“Is Torture Gendered?” For seminar “Gender in a Global Perspective.” Emerson College, Boston,
MA. 8 April 2010.
“Plotting the Human: Unsettling the Manichean Allegory in Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge and
A Distant Shore.” For panel, “The Nature of Intolerance: Caryl Phillips and Human
Rights.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 6-8November 2009.
“Reading, ‘Righting,’ and Recognition: Literature and Human Rights in the New Global Era.”
Scholars’ Symposium, Department of English, University of Tampa,
23 September 2009.
“Old Questions in New Boxes:Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here and the Problematics of Transnational
Witnessing.” For Scholars’ Symposium, “The Gender of Humanitarian Narrative:
Genealogies of Humanitarian/Human Rights Reportage, Outreach and Campaigning.” Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut. May 2009.
“The Missing Frontier: Literature and Economic Rights.” Series in Human Rights. University of
North Carolina, Greensboro. 19-20 February, 2009.
“The Case of the Entrepreneurial Homicide: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Economic
Human Rights.” Rackham Seminar in Human Rights. University of Michigan, 13
February 2009.
“Literature and Film After 9/11.” One-Day University, Wellesley, MA, 29 September 2008.
“Literature and Film in an Age of Terror.” Understanding Our World Lecture Series, North
Hill, Needham, MA. 29 May 2008.
“An Embrace of Praxis: Entrepreneurial Pedagogy in the Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts
Classroom.” Hiram College, Hiram Ohio. 15 May 2008.
“Of Manifestos and Manifesting: Professing Literature and Human Rights in an Age of Terror.”
Keynote Lecture, Ropes Memorial Lecture Series: Humanities in a Post-9/11 Age.
University of Cincinnati English and Comparative Literature Department.
12 February 2008.
Genocide/Witness.” Reading from Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights.
Miami University of Ohio English Department. 7 April 2006.
Guest Lecture, Issues in the Profession. Graduate English Course, Miami University of Ohio. 7 April 2006.
“Human Rights in Secondary Level Language Arts and Social Studies Curricula.” Bridges to
Scholarship Program. Northeastern University School of Education, Professional
Development Program. April 2004.
“Film and the Representation of Torture,” for panel Torture: From Clandestine Prison to
Popular Culture. Torture Abolition & Survivor Support Coalition One-Day Forum
Washington DC. 24 June 2003
“Not Now, I’m Eating: The Politics of Representing Human Rights Violations.” Faculty
Colloquium Series, Fisher College, Boston, MA. March 2001.
“Issues of Culture in Teaching and Reading Literature.” Massachusetts Department of
Education, Boston, MA. April 1999.
“The State of the Union: Adjunct Teaching in the Humanities.” Guest Lecture, Graduate Seminar: Introduction to the Professions. Miami University of Ohio. March 1998.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Dangerous Echoes: The Rhetorics of 21st Century Sex Worker Rights Advocates and
Antebellum Proslavery Ideologues.” Human Rights and Literature: Historiography and
Historical Literacy. Also Session Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis
Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht,
Netherlands. 6-9 July 2017.
“Modern Slavery and HBCUs: Huge Problem and Small Under-Resourced Colleges.” Modern
Slavery Institute Founding Conference, Tougaloo University. 6-8 March 2017.
“Exceptional Space, Everyday Time: The Problematic of Carceral Space-Time in Mohamedou
Ould Slahi’s GuantanamoDiary.” Human Rights and Everyday Violence. Also Session
Organizer and Presider. Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia,
PA, 4-7 January 2017.
“Restorations: Rebuilding Lives After Slavery and Exploitation.” Slavery: Past, Present, and
Future 2nd Global Meeting. Prague, Czech Republic, 2-4 May, 2016.
“Structured Absence: Revolution in Human-Rights Oriented Literary Criticism.” Human Rights
and Literature: Critical Reflections and New Directions. Also Session Organizer and Co-
Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative
Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, 17-20 March, 2016.
Roundtable: Business and Commerce, Slavery and Abolition, Then and Now. Historians Against
Slavery Conference, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH. 25
September 2015.
“Open Secrets: How Literature and Activism Contribute to Public Awareness of Guantanamo
Bay Prison.” ASAP. Greensville, SC. 24-27 September 2015.
“Vulnerability and Precarity, Innocence and Guilt: The Camp Delta Story.” Vulnerability,
Precarity, and Human Rights. Also Session Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative Literature Association, New York: NY 2-29 March, 2015.
“The Body and the Word: Toward a Genealogy of Postcolonialismand Human Rights.” For
Session, Cultural Capital of Human Rights. Also Session Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins. American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY. 20-23 March 2014.
“Are Men Human? Representations of the Perpetrator in James Levine’s The Blue Notebook.”
Negotiating Human Rights: Aesthetic, Cultural, and Political Framings. University of Denmark, Aarhus, 23-25 January 2014.
“Culpability as Continuum: Identifying the Perpetrator in the Sex Trafficking Scenario.” For
Session, “Interrogating the Perpetrator: Collective Guilt, Culpability, and Violation.” Historical Justice and Memory: Questions of Rights and Accountability in Contemporary Society.” Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights. December 5-7 2013.
“Politics and Posturing in Reception of Sex Trafficking Narratives.” For session “Styling Human
Rights,” American Comparative Literature Association. Also session co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and CrystalParikh. Toronto, 4-7 April 2013.
“K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents: An Investigation of Literature, Law, and the ‘Human Rights
Narrative.’” For Panel “Literature, Liberation, Law, and Sexuality.” African Literature
Association. Charleston, SC, 20-24 March 2013.
“Victims and Predators: Reflections On the Trafficking Narrative in James Levine’s The Blue
Notebook. For session “Trafficking: Cargos, Bodies, Texts.” Also Session Co-Organizer
and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore. Modern Language Association, Boston,
MA, 3-6 January 2013.
“Pedagogies of Human Rights and Literature, Or, the Importance of Reading Literarily.” Third
International Conference on Human Rights Education. Jagiellonion University, Krakow Poland, 5-8 Dec ember 2012.
“‘Accorded a Place in the Design’: Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema.” For Panel “Resistance to Apartheid: South Africa and the United States.” American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15-18 November 2012.
“Being, Becoming, and Haunting in Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail.” For panel “(In)Formal
Concerns: Human Rights and Cultural Forms.” American Comparative Literature
Association. Providence, RI. 29 March – 1 April 2012. Also Panel Co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Greg Mullins.
“Camp Delta 2011: Testimonial, Literature, and the Possibility of Lament.” For Panel “Human
Rights Modes: Lament.” Modern Language Association. Seattle, WA. 5-8 January 2012.
“Facing Blackface: Learning from Racism on a College Campus.” With Mary Pinard. Second
InternationalConference on Hate Studies. Spokane, WA. 4-6 April 2011.
“‘Let Us Begin with a Smaller Gesture’: Chris Abani and the Possibilities of Form.” With
Alexandra Schultheis. For Panel “To Embrace or to Unmask: The Role of Scholarship on Human Rights in Literature and the Arts.”American Comparative Literature Association. Vancouver, Canada. 31 March – 3 April 2011. Also Panel Co-Organizer and Co-Chair with Alexandra Schultheis and Greg Mullins.
“Spectatorship and Abandonment in Mia Kirschner’s I Live Here.” With Alexandra Schultheis.
For Panel “Narratives of the Global Sex Trade.” Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA, 5-10 January 2011.
“Old Questions in New Boxes: Multimedia Narrative and the Problematics of Transnational