Goodkin, Richard E.

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GOODKIN, Richard E.

GOODKIN, Richard E. American, b. 1953. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Classics, Language/Linguistics. Career: Yale University, New Haven, CT, assistant professor, 1980-86, associate professor, 1986-89; University of Wisconsin-Madison, associate professor, 1989-92, professor of French, 1992-. Publications: The Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home: Mallarme and Oedipus, 1984; Around Proust, 1991; The Tragic Middle: Racine, Aristotle, Euripides, 1991; (trans.) Antoine Campagnon, Proust between Two Centuries, 1992; Birth Marks: The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine, 2000. Address: Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 618 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.