Rick Gooding

Rick Gooding is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Chair of the Masters in Children's Literature Program at the University of British Columbia, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and the Department of English Language and Literatures. His academic work bridges eighteenth-century literature with contemporary children's and young adult fiction.

Education:

• University of Alberta (BA, MA)
• Dalhousie University (PhD)

Research Interests:

• Children's and Young Adult Fiction
• Posthuman Challenges to Liberal Humanist Models
• Genre-Theoretical Approaches to Writing Instruction
• Eighteenth-Century Literary Representations of Disease
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literatures

Teaching:

• Children’s and Young Adult Literature (ENGL 242, ENGL 392)
• Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENGL 351)
• Second-Year Historical Surveys (ENGL 220, ENGL 221)
• First-Year Writing and Literature (ENGL 100)
• Lectures on fairy tale adaptations, narrative theory, and critical analysis