Jennie
Lightweis-Goff
Scholar • Teacher • Writer
I teach literature and writing in the Gulf South. As a creative writer, I circuit around questions of addiction and recovery, grief and desire, and precarious labor. My scholarship has appeared in most of the major journals in American Literature and Southern Studies, including minnesota review, Mississippi Quarterly, Signs, American Literature, south, and Studies in the Literary Imagination. My lyric essays, both creative and learned, frequently appear in Liberties.
Now Available from PENN Press
Captive City:
Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South
The fragile, flooded landscapes of the Coastal South are haunted by the noise of contemporary ghost tours and riverwalks, and by the long memory of captive labor in its ports, docks, and hotels. Captive City invites the reader—and the traveler—to see across borders of time, and allow their paths to cross with the enslaved in the cities of the Gulf and Atlantic South.
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