Barbara Gottfried

Co Director of Undergraduate Studies, Women’s Studies Program at Boston University

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Boston University

Barbara Gottfried has been teaching in the Women’s Studies Program at Boston University since 1994. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawaii and then at Bently College. She attended Boston University as an undergraduate and received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, Sexual and Textual Politics in _Bleak House: Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Readings_, was a feminist reading of Dickens’s Bleak House. She has published feminist critiques on both Dickens and Philip Roth, and also on gender in advertising and in popular culture.

Barbara Gottfried teaches WS 114; Women and Film; Women, Gender, and Race in theMedia; and Women in Popular Fiction. She developed Women and Comedy and American Masculinities in 2009 – 2010. She is particularly interested in feminist literary/film criticism and theory, gender and feminist theory, clasic and contemporary fiction and film, and popular culture.

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Get a real ambassador, UN staff protest at appointment of Wonder Woman

October 24, 2016

Christian Science Monitor Barbara Gottfried, College of Arts & Sciences Levity is not the United Nations’ strong suit… Expert quote: “Wonder Woman is a great pop cultural symbol, but I feel an ambassador for the UN should be an actual person.” View full article

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Women in Combat: A Mirror of Society?

June 20, 2013

Time By Barbara Gottfried, College of Arts & Sciences While I strongly support the military’s decision to allow women to hold combat and special ops positions, I am concerned that the military thinks this will substantially cut back on sexual assaults by equalizing male and female roles… View full article

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