Audrey Goodman is a Professor of English and Department Chair at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she has taught since 1997. Her research and teaching interests focus on the literary and visual cultures of the greater U.S. Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands. Her first book, Translating Southwestern Landscapes (U of Arizona Press, 2002), won the 2003 Thomas J. Lyon Award from the Western Literature Association for its
examination of the literary formation of the Anglo Southwest. Her second book, Lost
Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth-Century Southwest (U of Arizona Press, 2010), considers the history and value of vernacular landscapes such as the road, the bridge, and the border as sites for negotiating everyday life and articulating cultural continuity under conditions of colonization.
Throughout her time at GSU, she has sought opportunities to pursue archival research projects, explore local places in New Mexico, California, and Arizona, and share work with WLA members and colleagues in Toulouse, France; Venice, Italy; and Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. As a fellow at the Huntington Library, she investigated Charis Wilson’s journal and hiked in the Pasadena hills; as a fellow in American Modernism at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe, she drove the back roads to Chimayó with her husband and, with her daughter, came to know intimately the acequias near Nambé and the playgrounds at Los Alamos. Research for her most recent book, A Planetary Lens: The Photo-poetics of Western Women’s Writing (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) was conducted at Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico, and at the kitchen table of her house in Albuquerque’s North Valley.