Biography
Robin Truth Goodman is a professor of Literature at Florida State University. Trained as a comparatist and as a scholar in postcolonial studies, Goodman specializes in the issues of critical pedagogy, feminism, and postcolonial theory. A cult following has been developing around her second book, Strange Love: Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market, which was one of the earliest titles on the cultures of neoliberalism. One of her books, World, Class, Women was considered a "pathbreaking book" that "examines how theory and literature can be used to reclaim feminism, schooling, and economic justice as part of a broader effort in imagining a global democratic public sphere" by Henry A. Giroux, a leading scholar of education.
Her recent work also includes a book on Post-September 11 US policies and another acclaimed book, Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public, on the need for feminist theory to reclaim the public sphere. She is also the author of Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism.
Works
Feminist theory in pursuit of the public
Promissory Notes
Film As World Literature
Film As World Literature
2025
Gender Commodity
Gender Commodity
2022
Feminism As World Literature
Feminism As World Literature
2022
Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory
Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory
2019
Gender for the Warfare State
Gender for the Warfare State
2016
Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory
Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory
2015
Policing Narratives and the State of Terror
Policing Narratives and the State of Terror
2009
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
World, Class, Women
World, Class, Women
Gender Work
Gender Work
Critical Perspectives Series : A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire : Strange Love
Critical Perspectives Series : A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire : Strange Love
Infertilities
Infertilities
Cinema and the Political Imagination
Cinema and the Political Imagination