Staff Profile:Professor Barbara Goff
- Name:
- Professor Barbara Goff
- Job Title:
- Professor
- Responsibilities:
Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes (spring and summer terms)
I did my undergraduate work at King's College Cambridge, where I was later a Junior Research Fellow, and I pursued my postgraduate work at the University of California. I have taught at different institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. I usually teach the Part 2 core module 'Ancient Drama' (CL2DR) and Ancient Greek language. In 2019-2020, I shall also teach 'Transformations of Helen'.
- Areas of Interest:
Greek Tragedy and its reception; women in antiquity; postcolonial classics; reception of Greek political thought.
Unprivileged Pasts, Unwritten Origins: New Foundations Research Workshop
- Research groups / Centres:
I am a member of the Ancient Literature and Classical Tradition and Reception groups in the Department.
I am a member of the Ancient and Modern Imperialisms Network and I help to run the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network. I am on the executive committee of the Classical Reception Studies Network, based at the Open University.
I am on the international editorial boards of the Classical Receptions Journal (OUP) of Elektra (University of Patras), and of Classical Receptions in Twentieth Century Writing (Bloomsbury)
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 26.
2019
- Goff, B. and Harloe, K. (2019) Sappho in the twentieth century and beyond. In: Finglass, P. and Kelly, A. (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Sappho. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)
2016
- Goff, B. (2016) All aboard the Bacchae bus: reception of Euripides in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In: McClure, L. K. (ed.) A companion to Euripides. Wiley Blackwell, Malden MA, pp. 565-582. ISBN 9781119257509
- Goff, B. (2016) Another Oedipus: Leloup’s Guéidô. In: Pestell, B., Palazzolo, P. and Burnett, L. (eds.) Translating Myth. Routledge. ISBN 9781910887042
- Goff, B. (2016) The leopard-skin of Heracles: traditional wisdom and untraditional madness in a Ghanaian Alcestis. In: Kyriakou, P. and Rengakos, A. (eds.) Wisdom and Folly in Euripides. Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 31. De Gruyter, pp. 347-364. ISBN 9783110452259
- Goff, B. (2016) The reception of Greek drama on Africa: ‘A Tradition That Intends To Be Established’. In: Van Zyl Smit, B. (ed.) Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama. Wiley-Blackwell.
- Goff, B. and Leonard, M. (2016) Introduction: the legacy of Greek political thought. Classical Receptions Journal, 8 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1759-5142 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clv012
2015
- Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (2015) New worlds, old dreams? Postcolonial theory and reception of Greek drama. In: Bosher, K., Macintosh, F., McConnell, J. and Rankine, P. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 30-50. ISBN 9780199661305 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199661305.013.004
- Goff, B. (2015) The Greeks of the WEA.: realities and rhetorics in the first two decades. In: Stead, H. and Hall, E. (eds.) Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 216-234. ISBN 9781472584267
2014
- Goff, B. (2014) Postcolonial translation: theory and practice. In: Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. Brill, Leiden, pp. 122-125. ISBN 9789004225978
2013
- Goff, B. (2013) Ode to sport: poetry and the revived Olympics. Glits-e: a journal of criticism, 3.
- Goff, B. (2013) 'Your secret language': classics in the British colonies of West Africa. Classical Diaspora. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp248. ISBN 9781780932057
- Goff, B. (2013) Classics in West African education: the rhetoric of colonial commissions. In: Hardwick, L. and Harrison, S. (eds.) Classics in the Modern World: a 'democratic turn'? Classical Presences. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 157-170. ISBN 9780199673926
2011
- Goff, B. (2011) Thinking the Olympics: the classical tradition and the modern Games. In: Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (eds.) Thinking the Olympics: the classical tradition and the modern Games. Bloomsbury/Bristol Classical Press, London, pp. 1-19. ISBN 9780715639306 doi: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781849667074
- Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (2011) Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba's 'Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone'. In: Mee, E. B. and Foley, H. P. (eds.) Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Classical Presences. Oxford University Press, Oxford , pp. 324-343. ISBN 9780199586196
- Goff, B. (2011) Response to Tzanetou and Vinh. In: Carter, D. (ed.) Why Athens? a reappraisal of tragic politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 345-349. ISBN 9780199562329
2010
- Goff, B. E. (2010) Sons of the shield: paternal arms in epic and tragedy. In: Mitsis, P. and Tsagalis, C. (eds.) Allusion, authority, and truth: critical perspectives on Greek poetic and rhetorical praxis. De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany and New York, USA, pp. 219-233. ISBN 9783110245394
2009
- Goff, B. (2009) Euripides: Trojan Women. Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. Duckworth, London, pp144. ISBN 9780715635452
2008
- Goff, B. (2008) The priestess of Athena grows a beard: latent citizenship in Ancient Greek women's ritual practice. In: Pollock, G. and Turvey-Sauron, V. (eds.) The sacred and the feminine: imagination and sexual difference. New encounters: arts, cultures, concepts. I B Tauris & Co. Ltd, London, pp. 49-60. ISBN 9781845115210
2007
- Goff, B. (2007) Improvising on the Athenian stage: women's ritual practices in drama. In: Parca, M. and Tzanetou, A. (eds.) Finding Persephone: women's rituals in the ancient Mediterranean. Studies in ancient folklore and popular culture. Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, pp. 79-91. ISBN 9780253219381
- Goff, B. (2007) Antigone's boat: the colonial and the postcolonial in Tegonni: an African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan. In: Hardwick, L. and Gillespie, C. (eds.) Classics in postcolonial worlds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 40-53. ISBN 9780199296101
- Goff, B. E. (2007) Classical subjects and modern subjectivities: introduction. Helios, 34 (2). pp. 121-123. ISSN 1935-0228 doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2008.0002
- Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (2007) Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and dramas of the African Diaspora. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199217182
2006
- Goff, B. E. (2006) Antigone's Boat: the colonial and the postcolonial in "Tegonni: an African Antigone" by Femi Osofisan. In: Adeyemi, S. (ed.) Portraits for an eagle: essays in honour of Femi Osofisan. Bayreuth African Studies, Germany, pp. 111-121. ISBN 9783927510951
- Goff, B. (2006) Dionysiac triangles: the politics of culture in Wole Soyinka's The Bacchae of Euripides. In: Pedrick, V. and Oberhelman, S. (eds.) The soul of Tragedy: essays on ancient Athenian drama and its contexts. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 73-88. ISBN 9780226653068
2005
- Goff, B., ed. (2005) Classics and Colonialism. Duckworth, London, pp166. ISBN 9780715633113
2004
- Goff, B. (2004) Citizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, pp413. ISBN 9780520239982
