Professor Dr. Kevis Goodman

Biography

Kevis Goodman is a Professor and the John F. Hotchkis Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Renaissance, Early Modern, and 18th-Century British Poetry. She teaches and writes in the fields of 17th-century British literature, particularly Milton, 18th-century British literature, and Romanticism. Her notable works include "Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History" (Cambridge, 2004) and "Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking, Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics" (Yale University Press, 2023), which has received the Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for the year's best book in Romantic studies. She has been honored with the 2025 Robert Lowry Patten Award for her exceptional contributions to studies in English literature. Her current research investigates the interplay between Enlightenment medicine and aesthetic criticism within the context of increasing geographical mobility and environmental awareness. Goodman has co-edited works exploring Geoffrey Hartman's legacy in response to Romantic literature, emphasizing new approaches to literature's relationship with societal and ecological changes.

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