Barbara Goff
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+44 (0) 118 378 5172
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Professor
- Co-Head of Department
- Careers/alumni
Areas of interest
Greek Tragedy and its reception; women in antiquity; postcolonial classics; reception of Greek political thought.Teaching
I usually teach the Part 2 core module Ancient Drama (CL2DR) and Ancient Greek language. I enjoy teaching modules on gender in the ancient world, and on the reuse of classical literature in the modern world.Research centres and groups
I am a member of the Legacies research cluster in the Department.
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).
Background
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.Publications
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
and
Petsalis-Diomidis, A.
(2023)
Inclusive classics and pedagogy: teachers, academics and students in conversation.
In:
Libatique, D.
and
McHardy, F.
, (eds.)
Diversity and the Study of Antiquity in Higher Education: Perspectives from North America and Europe.
Classics in and out of the Academy
Diversity and the Study of Antiquity in Higher Education Perspectives from North America and Europe
pp.
121-130.
ISBN:
9781032235127
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003278016-11
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
(2022)
Revolution in antiquity: the classicizing fiction of Naomi Mitchison.
Clotho
, 4
(2).
pp.
155-179.
ISSN:
2670-6229
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.4312/clotho.4.2.155-179
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
(2022)
Decolonizing Classics in Africa: the work of
Alexander Kwapong.
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
, 65
(1).
pp.
32-41.
ISSN:
2041-5370
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbac006
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
(2022)
Do we have a new song yet? The new wave of women’s
novels and the Homeric tradition.
Humanities
, 11
(2).
ISSN:
2076-0787
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11020049
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
and
Harloe, K.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0207-5212
(2021)
Sappho in the twentieth century and beyond.
In:
Finglass, P.
and
Kelly, A.
, (eds.)
The Cambridge Companion to Sappho.
Cambridge University Press
, Cambridge.
ISBN:
9781316638774
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316986974.029
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
(2020)
Tragedy at home and homeless: between politics and aesthetics.
Il teatro della 'polis' tra intrattenimento e politica. Nuove interpretazioni del dramma greco antico - Atti del convegno internazionale, Pisa 2019.
Frammenti sulla Scena
, 1.
Frammenti sulla Scena
, 1
(2).
pp.
1-24.
ISSN:
2612-3908
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doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.13135/2612-3908/5707
(Volume speciale - Il teatro della 'polis' tra intrattenimento e politica - Atti del convegno internazionale (Pisa 2019))
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Goff, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0598-2843
and
Simpson, M.
(2020)
Introduction.
In:
Goff, B.
and
Simpson, M.
, (eds.)
Classicising crisis: the modern age of revolutions and the Greco-Roman repertoire.
Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Routledge
, London.
pp.
1-18.
ISBN:
9780815361770
|
doi:
https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351115506
- Goff, B. (2016) All aboard the Bacchae bus: reception of Euripides in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In: McClure, L. , (eds.) A companion to Euripides. Wiley Blackwell , Malden MA. pp. 565-582. ISBN: 9781119257509
- 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. , (eds.) Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama. Wiley-Blackwell
- Goff, B. (2016) Another Oedipus: Leloup’s Guéidô. In: Pestell, B. , Palazzolo, P. , Burnett, L. , (eds.) Translating Myth. Routledge ISBN: 9781910887042
- Goff, B. and Leonard, M. (2016) Introduction: the legacy of Greek political thought. Classical Receptions Journal , 8 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN: 1759-5142 ISBN: 1759-5142 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/crj/clv012
- Goff, B. and Simpson, M. (2015) New worlds, old dreams? Postcolonial theory and reception of Greek drama. In: Bosher, K. , Macintosh, F. , McConnell, J. , Rankine, P. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 30-50. ISBN: 9780199661305 | doi: https://dx.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
- Goff, B. (2014) Postcolonial translation: theory and practice. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics. , III. Brill , Leiden. pp. 122-125. ISBN: 9789004225978
- 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
- 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. pp 248. ISBN: 9781780932057
- Goff, B. (2011) Response to Tzanetou and Vinh. In: Carter, D. , (eds.) Why Athens? a reappraisal of tragic politics. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 345-349. ISBN: 9780199562329
- Goff, B. (2011) Thinking the Olympics: the classical tradition and the modern Games. In: Goff, B. and Simpson, M. , (eds.) Bloomsbury/Bristol Classical Press , London. pp. 1-19. ISBN: 9780715639306 | doi: https://dx.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. and Foley, H. , (eds.) Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage. Classical Presences Oxford University Press , Oxford . pp. 324-343. ISBN: 9780199586196
- Goff, B. (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
- Goff, B. (2009) Euripides: Trojan Women. Duckworth companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy Duckworth , London. pp 144. ISBN: 9780715635452
- 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
- Goff, B. , eds. (2007) Classical subjects and modern subjectivities: introduction. In: Goff, B. , (eds.) Helios , 34 (2). pp. 121-123. ISSN: 1935-0228 | doi: https://dx.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
- 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. (2006) Antigone's Boat: the colonial and the postcolonial in "Tegonni: an African Antigone" by Femi Osofisan. In: Adeyemi, S. , (eds.) 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
- Goff, B. , eds. (2005) Classics and Colonialism. Duckworth , London. pp 166. ISBN: 9780715633113
- Goff, B. (2004) Citizen Bacchae: women's ritual practice in ancient Greece. University of California Press , Berkeley and Los Angeles. pp 413. ISBN: 9780520239982