Shari Gabrielson Goodmann (December 2, 1944-May 26, 2015), who published under the name Shari Benstock, was chairperson of the English department and associate dean for faculty affairs at the

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and a feminist literary scholar.Suzanne Ferriss
In Memoriam: Shari Gabrielson Goodmann
/ref> She was an expert on

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, and a biographer of

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Life

Early life and education

Shari Gabrielson was born in

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on December 2, 1944, the daughter of Dana and Myrl (Barth) Gabrielson. She grew up in

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and was educated at Luther College,

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, and

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Career

She edited ''

Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature ''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'' (''TSWL''), founded by Germaine Greer in 1982, is devoted to the study of women's literature and women's writing in general. Publishing "articles, notes, research, and reviews of literary, historicist, and t ...

'' from 1983 until 1986. With Celeste Schenck, she established "Reading Women Writing" at

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, one of the first book series dedicated to women's writing and feminist scholarship. In 1986, she published ''Women of the Left Bank'', which explores the lives and works of some two dozen American, English and French women among the Paris expatriate literari, including

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Alice B. Toklas Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein. Early life Alice B. Toklas was born in Sa ...

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, Adrienne Monnier,

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, and Bryher.

University of Miami

In 1986, she left the

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for the

, where she was a faculty member until 2006. She founded the University of Miami's program in Women's and Gender Studies and served as chairperson of the University of Miami's English department and associate dean for faculty affairs for the university's College of Arts and Sciences.

Personal life

Benstock married Mel Shyvers, with whom she had a son, Eric.Shari Gabrielson Goodmann, founder of Women’s and Gender Studies, Passes Away

, May 29, 2015. She subsequently married Bernard Benstock, a

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scholar, who died in 1994.Memoriam
''Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature'', Vol. 34, No. 2 (Fall 2015), p. 222. In 2004, she married Thomas Goodmann, associate professor of English at the

, who cared for her in the last decade of her life during which she suffered from

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Works

* ''Who's He When He's at Home: A James Joyce Directory'', 1980 (with Bernard Benstock) * ''Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940'', 1986 * ''The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings'', 1988 (editor) * ''Coping With Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium''] 1989 (editor with Morris Beja) * ''“No Gifts from Chance”: A Biography of Edith Wharton'', 1994 (editor) * ''On Fashion'', 1994 (editor with Suzanne Ferriss) * '

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'' by

. 1994 (editor) * ''Footnotes: On Shoes'', 2001 (editor with Suzanne Ferriss) * ''A Handbook of Literary Feminism'', 2002 (with Suzanne Ferriss)

References

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