Georgia Review
Luminous Waves
on surfing and illness, with Alice James and Georgia O'Keeffe
I write about pain, illness, and literature. And I work to make university classrooms accessible for everyone.
Shari Goldberg · Writer, Literary Critic, Inclusive Pedagogy Professor
Selected Writing
Essays, criticism, and recent work
Avidly / LA Review of Books
Gaslighting in 1880
gaslighting might not mean what you think it does
Fordham University Press
Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature
in which trees, the dead, and the muted enslaved all have something to say
About
Shari Goldberg has been writing about the quieter aspects of literary texts since 2008. She has published essays on ghosts and the dispossessed, mourning and trauma. Her current work brings pain, illness, and disability in conversation with literature and art.
As associate professor of English at Franklin and Marshall College, Shari has studied inclusive pedagogy over the last decade. In 2024, she and a colleague launched +1 Pedagogy, a project that helps other professors make their classrooms more accessible and engaging.
Shari lives in Lancaster, PA, with her partner and their pack (two cats and a dog).
Inclusive Pedagogy
+1 Pedagogy
+1 Pedagogy is a project designed to create learning environments that are accessible and effective for all students, regardless of their individual differences. The idea is for professors to add one small practice to their pedagogy toolboxes each semester or each year.
