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Indiana University Bloomington
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Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty : People

Jane Goodman

  • Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Culture
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • M.A.. at Brandeis University, 1992, Antrhopology
  • Ph.D. at Brandeis University, 1999, Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Berber studies
  • Language, performance and identity
  • Colonial and postcolonial formations
  • Textuality and discourse, with particular emphasis on the Middle East, North Africa, and France.

Contact Information

janegood@indiana.edu
800 E. Third St.
(812) 855-3232

Courses Recently Taught

  • Research in Communications & Culture
  • Ethnography as Cultural Criticism
  • Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East

Publication Highlights

  • "From Village to Vinyl: Genealogies of New Kabyle Song." Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures 13 (2003): 75-93.
  • "The Half-Lives of Texts: Poetry, Politics, and Ethnography in Kabylia, Algeria." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 12 (2002): 157-188.
  • "The Proverbial Bourdieu: Habitus and the Politics of Representation in the Ethnography of Kabylia." American Anthropologist 105 (2003): 782-793.
  • "Reinterpreting the Berber Spring: From Rite of Reversal to Site of Convergence." Journal of North African Studies 9 (2004): 60-82.
  • "Singers, saints, and the construction of postcolonial subjectivities in Algeria."  Ethos 26 (1998): 204-228.