Faculty | Jane Goodman

Associate Professor , Department of Communication and Culture

Email: janegood@indiana.edu
Phone: 855-3232
Office: 227

Curriculum Vitae

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