Amanda Jo Goldstein
دانشیار · 18th-Century British Literature
University of California, Berkeleyمعرفی
Amanda Jo Goldstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in Enlightenment and Romantic literature and science, with a focus on rhetoric and poetics, pre-Darwinian biology, and materialist theories of history, poetry, and nature. Her work bridges literary analysis with scientific inquiry, emphasizing how Romantic-era thinkers revived atomist science to position poetry as a form of empirical investigation.
Goldstein earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley in 2011. She previously taught at Cornell University as an Assistant Professor of English and held a postdoctoral fellowship in Biopolitics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research includes projects on utopian ecologies, nerve poetry and fiber art, and the biosemiotic roots of epigenetic neuroscience.
Her book Sweet Science: Romantic Materialism and the New Logics of Life (2017) won the Kenshur Prize and MLA’s First Book Prize. Her articles span journals like Keats-Shelley Journal, diacritics, and Representations, exploring themes such as climate justice, biosemiotics, and Romantic-era scientific thought.
Goldstein teaches courses like “Romanticism and the Culture of Experiment” and “The Ecology of Utopia,” reflecting her interdisciplinary approach. Her current research examines the intersections of utopianism, ecology, and scientific materialism.
