Faculty | Jane Goodman
Associate Professor , Department of Communication and Culture
Email: janegood@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-3232
Office: 227
Education
- Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1999
Research Interests
- performance and civic life
- colonial and postcolonial formations
- theater, music, and poetry, with emphasis on the Middle East, North Africa, and France
Courses Recently Taught
- C422 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- C318 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
Topic: Self, Body, Culture - C417 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- C401 Senior Seminar
Topic: Identity and Difference - C507 Ethnographic Research Methods in Communication & Culture
- C610 Identity and Difference
- C650 Ethnography and Social Theory
Topic: Middle East and North Africa
Publication Highlights
- Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments. Coedited with Paul Silverstein. University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
- Performing “Laїcité”: Gender, Agency and Neoliberalism among Algerians in France. In Politics, Publics, Personhood: Ethnography at the Limits of Neoliberalism.Carol J. Greenhouse, editor. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
- A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings. Coedited with Leila Monaghan. Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
- Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.
- "Reinterpreting the Berber Spring: From Rite of Reversal to Site of Convergence." Journal of North African Studies 9 (2004): 60-82.
- "The Proverbial Bourdieu: Habitus and the Politics of Representation in the Ethnography of Kabylia." American Anthropologist 105 (2003): 782-793.
- "From Village to Vinyl: Genealogies of New Kabyle Song." Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures 13 (2003): 75-93.
- "Writing Empire, Underwriting Nation: Discursive Histories of Kabyle Berber 'Oral Texts'." American Ethnologist 29 (2002):86-122.
- "'Stealing Our Heritage?': Women's Folk Songs, Copyright Law, and the Public Domain in Algeria." Africa Today 49 (2002): 84-97.
- "The Half-Lives of Texts: Poetry, Politics, and Ethnography in Kabylia, Algeria." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12 (2002): 157-188.
- "Singers, saints, and the construction of postcolonial subjectivities in Algeria." Ethos 26 (1998): 204-228.
- "Dancing toward 'la mixité': Berber associations and cultural change in Algeria." Middle East Report (MERIP) 26 (1996): 16-19.
Selected Honors and Awards
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad fellow, 2008-2009
- ACLS/SSRC/NEH fellow, 2008-2009
- American Institute for Maghreb Studies fellow, 2008-2009
- New Frontiers faculty fellow, 2008-2009
- Trustees’ Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2003
- Trustees’ Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2003
