Goodheart, Eugene
GOODHEART, Eugene
GOODHEART, Eugene. American, b. 1931. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, instructor, then assistant professor, 1958-62; University of Chicago, assistant professor, 1962-66; Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, associate professor, 1966-67; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, associate professor, 1967-70, professor, 1970-74, co-director of Cambridge Humanities Seminar, 1973-82; Boston University, professor of English and chairman of dept., 1974-80; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities, 1983-, now Emeritus, director of Brandeis Center for the Humanities, 1986-92, dept. chairman, 1989-94. Publications: The Utopian Vision of D.H. Lawrence, 1963; The Cult of the Ego: The Self in Modern Literature, 1968; Culture and the Radical Conscience, 1973; The Failure of Criticism, 1978; The Skeptic Disposition in Contemporary Criticism, 1985; Pieces of Resistance, 1987; Desire and Its Discontents, 1992; The Reign of Ideology, 1996; Does Literary Studies Have a Future, 1999; Confessions of a Secular Jew, 2001; Novel Practices: Classic Modern Fiction, 2003. Address: Dept of English, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, U.S.A. Online address: goodheart@brandeis.edu