Jesse A. Goldberg Department of English, Cornell University 250 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY

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1 Jesse A. Goldberg Department of English, 250 Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca, NY Education Ph.D., English Language and Literature,, 2018 M.A., English Language and Literature,, 2015 B.A. English/B.A. Philosophy, State University of New York at Geneseo, 2012, Summa Cum Laude Dissertation The Excessive Present of Abolition: The Afterlife of Slavery in Law, Literature, and Performance Advisors: Margo Crawford (chair), Grant Farred, Dagmawi Woubshet, Shirley Samuels Publications Journal Articles The Restored Literary Behaviors of Neo-Slave Narratives: Troubling the Ethics of Witnessing in the Excessive Present. Callaloo 40.1 (2017): forthcoming. Slavery s Ghosts and the Haunted Housing Crisis: On Narrative Economy and Circum-Atlantic Memory in Toni Morrison s A Mercy. MELUS 41.4 (December 2016): Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop and Frisk-style Profiling. CLA Journal 58.4 (July 2016): Book Chapters/Collected Essays Performative Paratexts: Post-Blackness, Law, and Periodizing African American Literature. Infrastructures of African American Print. Eds. Brigitte Fielder and Jonathan Senchyne (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017): forthcoming. From Sweetness to Toya Graham: Intersectionality and the Im/Possibility of Maternal Ethics. Toni Morrison on Mothers and Motherhood. Eds. Lee Baxter & Martha Satz (Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, July 2017): Book Reviews Lindon Barrett s Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2014). In Journal of Black Studies 46.8 (November 2015): Salamishah Tillet s Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012). In Callaloo 38.1 (Winter 2015): Public Writing Male Ego Bulls**t: On martial arts training, violence, and toxic masculinity. The Feminist Wire. November 2016.

2 Jesse A. Goldberg CV 2 Honors and Awards Competitive Teaching, Research, and Academic Awards 2017 Knight Institute Peer Collaboration Program Grant 2016 Shin Yong-Jin Teaching and Research Fellowship at 2015 Cornell American Studies Program Graduate Research Grant Department of English Sage Fellowship at Cornell John S. Knight Institute Award for Writing Exercises: Transitions 2012 Department of English Sage Fellowship at Cornell SUNY Chancellor s Award for Student Excellence 2011 Presidential Scholar at SUNY Geneseo Travel Grants 2015 Cornell American Studies Program ASA Conference Travel Grant Cornell Graduate School Conference Travel Grant SSAWW Conference Travel Grant 2014 Cornell Graduate School Conference Travel Grant 2013 Cornell Graduate School Conference Travel Grant 2012 SUNY Geneseo Foundation Conference Travel Grant Honors Society Affiliations Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Society, Phi Sigma Tau International Philosophy Honors Society, Phi Eta Sigma Conferences Presentations Workshops Abolishing Prisons, Abolishing Whiteness: Challenges of Coalitional Politics ; American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL: Nov. 9-12, 2017) Overwhelming Pessimism; Or, Why the 19 th Century, Now? ; Tenth Annual Global 19 th -Century Day (Ithaca, NY: March 25, 2017) Black Lives Matter and the Ambivalence of Performing Resistance ; Celebrating African American Literature and Culture Conference: Race and Resistance (State College, PA: October 28-29, 2016) Thinking the Excessive Present: The (Non-)Event of the Civil War in The Escape and Peculiar Sam ; Ninth Annual 19 th -Century Day (Ithaca, NY: April 16, 2016) He was already Dead : Social Death and the Racist Foundations of Law in Song of Solomon ; Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference (Hartford, CT: April 1-2, 2016) Blessed are the barren : Angelina Weld Grimke s Queer Resistance to White Supremacy ; Society for the Study of American Women Writers annual conference (Philadelphia, PA: Nov. 4-8, 2015) He was already Dead : Social Death and the Limits of Law in Song of Solomon ; John Jay College School of Criminal Justice Fourth Annual Law and Literature Conference (New York, NY: Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2015) On the (Extra)Legal Killing of Eric Garner and the Law s Imaginary Archive ; American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oct. 8-11, 2015)

3 Jesse A. Goldberg CV 3 Restored Literary Behaviors: History, Form, and the Time of Witnessing in Neo-Slave Narratives ; Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth (Hanover, NH: June 22-28, 2015) The Post-Black FIRE!! of the Harlem Renaissance ; Northeast MLA Annual Convention (Toronto, ON, Canada: April 30 May 3, 2015) Which Contending Forces?: Pauline Hopkins and the Civil War that does and does not happen ; Eighth Annual Global 19 th -Century Day (Ithaca, NY: March 21, 2015) The Post as Preface: Paratext, Post-Blackness, and African American Literature ; University of Wisconsin-Madison s Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture conference African American Expression in Print & Digital Culture (Madison, WI: Sept. 20, 2014) Harriet Jacobs s Theory in the Flesh: Reading Incidents as African American Literary Jurisprudence ; Seventh Annual Global 19 th -Century Day (Ithaca, NY: April 26, 2014) What lay beneath the names : Song of Solomon s History of Race, Law, and Property ; Roundtable on Redefining American History and Identity through the Novels of Toni Morrison; Northeast MLA Annual Convention (Harrisburg, PA: April 4, 2014) Singing in the Dark: Blackness and Walt Whitman s Civil War Poetry ; American Literature Association Symposium War and American Literature (New Orleans, LA: Oct. 11, 2013) Rituals of (dis)possession: Lynching and the emergence of armed police in 19 th century America ; Sixth Annual Global 19 th -Century Day (Ithaca, NY: April 20, 2013) (Re)Memory and Modernity: Toni Morrison s A Mercy and the 2008 Housing Crisis ; Northeast MLA Annual Convention (Boston, MA: March 22, 2013) Lynchings, the Zoot Suit Riots, and Racializing Criminality ; University of Rochester History Department s Annual Graduate Conference on Deviancy (Rochester, NY: Feb. 23, 2013) Panels Organized: The Problem of Whiteness at the 2017 meeting of American Studies Association Blackness and the Miseries of Law in the Long Aftermath of Slavery at the 2015 meeting of the American Studies Association 50 Years after the Civil Rights Act: Post-Black but not Post-Race at the 2014 convention of the Northeast MLA Teaching Instructor of Record The Legal Life of American Racism (Spring 2018) (writing seminar) Black Plays and Performance (Spring 2015, Fall 2017) (writing seminar) Race, Law, and the Black Lives Matter Movement (Spring 2017) (writing seminar) Black American Theater (Fall 2015) (writing seminar) Great New Books: Memory, Identity, and Rupture (Fall 2013, Spring 2014) (writing seminar)

4 Cornell Prison Education Program, Five Points Maximum-Security Correctional Facility World Literature I: Drama, Theater, and Performance (Summer 2017) Freshman English I: Writing with/against Other Voices (Summer 2016) Cornell Prison Education Program, Cayuga Medium-Security Correctional Facility Introduction to College Writing and Study (Summer 2017) Teaching Assistant Reading and Writing about Latin America (Summer 2013) (writing seminar) SUNY Geneseo Hurricane Stories (Spring 2011) African American Migration Narratives (Fall 2010) Jesse A. Goldberg CV 4 Invited Guest Lectures Black Studies In the Wake in ENGL 1111: Race and (Dis)Ability (Spring 2017) Future Phantoms: Introducing Derrida s Specters of Marx in ENGL 1157: American Ghosts (Fall 2016) Designing a Writing Seminar: Craft and Content in ENGL 6001: Adv. Pedagogy Workshop for Graduate Instructors (Fall 2016) Accumulating time in Claudia Rankine s Citizen in COML 1126: What is Contemporaneity? (Fall 2016) Blackness as Position: Law and Hegemony in ENGL 1111: Theories of Blackness from Around the Globe (Fall 2016) Laughing in the face of violence: Dave Chappelle s Killin Them Softly in the wake of Black Lives Matter in ENGL 1158: African American Comedy (Spring 2016) Slavery and the beginnings of the African American Literary Tradition in ENGL 2650: Introduction to African American Literature (Spring 2016) Hip Hop Feminism (2 sessions) in ENGL 1105: Madwomen, Bad Girls, Spinsters (Fall 2015) Introducing Sojourner Truth s Ain t I a Woman and Toni Morrison s Beloved in ENGL 1167: Great New Books (Fall 2013) Research and Teaching Areas Black Studies African American Literature (19thC-present) American Studies Black Feminist Theory 19 th -Century American Literature Performance Studies Critical Race Theory Law and Literature Policing and Prisons Service and Volunteer Experience Cornell Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Division Chief for the Humanities Voting Member for the Humanities Co-Chair, Student Advocacy Committee Spring 2015 Field Representative for English Language and Literature Spring 2014 Committees served: Student Advocacy, Appropriations English Department Graduate Student Organization Invited Participant on Panel: Teaching Writing at Cornell May 2017

5 Invited Participant on Panel: Selecting a Dissertation Topic April 2017 Americanist Reading Group/Conference Organizer President Vice President English Department Graduate Policy and Curriculum Committee Doctoral Student Representative English Department Graduate Students Policy Advocacy Committee President Cohort Representative Cornell English Department Graduate Student Mentorship Program Mentor Cornell English Department Roundtable Session Coordinator & Session Moderator Jesse A. Goldberg CV 5 Affiliations Modern Language Association Northeast Modern Language Association American Studies Association College Language Association Society for the Study of American Women Writers MELUS: The Society for Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States C19: The Society for Nineteenth-Century Americanists Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities References Margo Crawford Professor of English University of Pennsylvania margocr@english.upenn.edu Dagmawi Woubshet Associate Professor of English University of Pennsylvania dagw@english.upenn.edu Jessica Brewer Five Points Correction Facility Coordinator Cornell Prison Education Program j.brewer@cornell.edu Grant Farred Professor of Africana Studies gaf38@cornell.edu Shirley Samuels Professor of English shirley.samuels@cornell.edu Robert Scott Director Cornell Prison Education Program robscott@cornell.edu