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 is particularly interested in feminist literary/film criticism and theory, gender and feminist theory, clasic and contemporary fiction and film, and popular culture.