Jennie Lightweis-Goff

Jennie Lightweis-Goff is a writer, scholar, and flâneuse; her thinking and writing cover the waterways and territory between New Orleans and Memphis, a region she calls "the Cosmic American Parabola." She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester, and has since taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The University of South Florida, Tulane University, the University of Mississippi, North China University of Technology, Texas A&M University, and a variety of programs for non-traditional, adult, incarcerated, and second language learners. Her scholarship has appeared in most of the major journals of American Literature, Feminist Theory, and Southern Literary Studies. A lyric essayist, she has written on her peripatetic life in LIBERTIES and AVIDLY, as well as on her Substack. The Butcher's Darling, her newsletter, fixates on precarious labor and restless reflections.