Faculty Directory - Bio
Sean X. Goudie
Associate Professor of English
Contact:
153 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-3945
Email: sxgoudie@psu.edu
Sean X. Goudie is Associate Professor of English and a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State. His book, Creole America: the West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic (U Penn Press, 2006), was awarded the 2007 Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book. Goudie’s research and teaching seek to devise new paradigms for understanding American literature and culture across the centuries, challenging bounded “national” estimations of the field in favor of “hemispheric” and “transnational” approaches. With particular emphasis on North American and Caribbean relations—historic, political, economic, and cultural—Goudie’s scholarship has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and Vanderbilt University’s Center for the Americas. Goudie’s current book project examines the ways in which the Caribbean region becomes a primary locus for U. S. empire building in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by treating artistic and literary proponents of such expansionism as well as its detractors both in North America and the West Indies.
Education:
B.A. Davidson College
M.A. North Carolina State University
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Publications:
Book
Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
***Winner, MLA Prize for a First Book, 2007
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14231.html
Articles
“Towards a Definition of Caribbean American Regionalism: Contesting Anglo-America’s Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far.” American Literature 80.2 (2008): 293-322.
“The West Indies, Commerce and a Play for U. S. Empire: Recovering J. Robinson’s
The Yorker’s Stratagem.” Early American Literature 40.1 (2005): 1-35.
“On the Origin of American Specie(s): The West Indies, Classification, and the
Emergence of Supremacist Consciousness in Arthur Mervyn.” In Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic, eds. Philip Barnard, Mark Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro. Knoxville: UP of Tennessee, 2004. 60-87.
“Fabricating Ideology: Clothing, Culture, and Colonialism in Melville’s Typee.”
Criticism 40.2 (Spring 1998): 217-36.
“Leavin’ a Mark on the Wor(l)d: Marksmen and Marked Men in Middle Passage.”
African American Review 29.1 (1995): 109-122.***
***Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism 163 (2002): 210-19.
“Alexander Hamilton and the New Republic’s Creole Complex.” In Settlers and
Creoles, eds. Jonathan Lamb and Vanessa Agnew. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in 2008. 20pp.
Interviews
“Theory, Practice, and the Intellectual: A Conversation with Abdul R.
JanMohamed.” Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1.2 (Fall 1997): 94 pars. Online. Internet. (http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/)
“Holders of the Word: An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee” (with Tina Chen).
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1.1 (Spring 1997): 104 pars. Online. Internet. (http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/)***
***Reprinted in Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee, ed. Bradley C. Edwards.
Jackson: UP of Mississippi, forthcoming in 2009. 30pp.
Fellowships and Awards:
MLA Prize for a First Book, 2007
Principal Investigator, “In the Wake of Katrina: What Was Our Response, and
What Will Our Response Be?” Incubator Group, Center for the Americas, 2005-2006
Faculty Fellow, “Developing Effective Social Impact Methodologies for the
Americas: The Sustainable Forestry Industry as Case Study” Working Group, Center for the Americas (Vanderbilt), 2005-2006
Faculty Fellow, “Music, Religion and the South” Working Group, Center for
the Study of Religion and Culture (Vanderbilt), 2005-2006
Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship,
McNeil Center for Early American Studies (U Penn), 2002-2003
Research Scholar Fund Grant (Vanderbilt), 2002-2003
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1997-1998
Vice Chancellor for Research Fund Award (UC Berkeley), 1997
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1996-1997
Chancellor’s Fellowship in the Humanities (UC Berkeley), 1995-1996
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society (NC State), 1993
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (NC State), 1993
Invited Presentations:
“Beyond Revolution: Haiti in the Early U. S. Literary Imagination.” Plenary,
Conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), Montreal CN 2006.
“Alexander Hamilton and the New Republic’s Creole Complex.” Lecture, the
David Library of the American Revolution, Washington Crossing PA 2003.
“Paracolonialism: Reading Early U. S. American Literature and Culture
Postcolonially.” Lecture, the American Literature Seminar, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 2002.
Select Conference Papers:
Chair, “International Modernism and the Global Plantation.” Modernist Studies
Association Annual Meeting, Nashville TN 2008.
Chair and Comment, "The Politics of Relation: Creolization and the Invention of
America.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM 2008.
Respondent, “Tropical Tangents: the West Indies and the Wider World.” Joint
Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Society of Early Americanists. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA 2007.
Moderator, Panel Discussion on Caribbean Poetry featuring Kwame Dawes, Lorna
Goodison, and J. Edward Chamberlin. “Dancing Between Two (or More) Cultures: Writers of the Caribbean, Central America and the United States.” Annual Creative Writers Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 2007.
“Brown and the Bayou: Politics, Writing, and the Borderlands in the
Postrevolutionary Circumatlantic World,” Concluding Plenary. Fifth Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, New Orleans LA 2006.
Chair and Organizer, “Early American Caribbeana.” Division on Early American
Literature to 1800. MLA Convention, Washington DC 2005.
“Alexander Hamilton, Creole American.” Settlers, Creoles, and
the Re-Enactment of History Conference, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, Nashville 2005.
Chair, “Caribbean Perspectives.” Frederick Douglass and Herman
Melville: A Sesquicentennial Celebration, New Bedford MA 2005.
Chair, “Cross Waters: The United States and the West Indies in the
Nineteenth Century.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA 2004.
Chair and Organizer, “Circum-Atlantic Revolution(s) and Brown’s Politics on Race,
Abolition, and Empire” and “Conference Wrap-Up: Brown Now and Then . . . 2006.” Fourth Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, New York City NY 2004.
Participant, “A Melville Discussion in Honor of the Publication of Wilson Heflin’s
Herman Melville’s Whaling Years (2004),” Vanderbilt University Press and the Vanderbilt College of Arts & Science, Nashville TN 2004.
“The West Indies, Commerce, and J. Robinson’s Drama for United States Empire.”
Division on Early American Literature to 1800. MLA Annual Convention, San Diego CA 2003.
“In Ole West India: Redrawing the Boundaries of U. S. ‘Local Color’ Writing.”
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston TX 2002.
“Paracolonialism: Reading Early U. S. American Literature Postcolonially.” Third
Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, Groningen, Netherlands 2002.
“Franklin, Equiano, and the West Indian Frontier in Early American Literature.”
New Frontiers in Early American Literature Conference, sponsored by the
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 2002.
“Classification, the West Indies, and the Frontiers of Racial Consciousness in Arthur
Mervyn.” Second Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society, Las Vegas NV 2000.
Professional Service:
Advisory Board, Center for American Literary Studies,
Penn State University 2008-present
Program Committee,
2009 Society of Early Americanists Conference 2008-2009
Vice President,
Charles Brockden Brown Society 2004-2007
Coordinating and Program Committees,
2006 Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference 2004-2007
Advisory Board Member,
Charles Brockden Brown Society 2003-2004
Program Committee,
2004 Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference 2003-2004
Reader, Early American Literature 2006
Interviews Editor and Editorial Board Member,
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 1996-2003
Program Committee,
1999 MELUS Conference 1998-1999
