Prof. of English & the Liberal Arts
Emory University, Atlanta
Comparative Literature (Core)
Psychoanalytic Studies (Core)
German, History, Philosophy (Associated)
Elizabeth S.
Goodstein PhD
CULTURAL THEORY ACROSS BOUNDARIES
As a student of philosophy and cultural theory, history, literature and the arts, I have spent most of my professional life in interdisciplinary settings. I have degrees in Ideas and Methods (U Chicago) and Rhetoric (UC Berkeley); after teaching German language, literature, and cultural history at the University Rochester, I was a member of Emory’s Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts until its dissolution. To read about my journey,
Publications
An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance of phenomena—including money, gender, urban life, and technology—that subsequently became established arenas of inquiry in cultural theory. It