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[Video: Indiana University Presents appears in the upper-left corner of the screen]
[Video: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, a professor of English at IUPUC, appears on camera. She is looking at her bookcase in her office. The bookcase is lined with books. She picks out a book and looks at the cover.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks in voiceover: Classic literature, or literature with a capital L, teaches and delights, and is important.
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick sits at her office desk and opens a book to read.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks in voiceover: And that is the kind of work you'll study in college literature courses.
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick appears on camera.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks: The texts that we read in those courses, historically, have predominantly been texts by men. …
[Words appear: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Professor of English, Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies and Director of the Office of Student Research at IUPUC]
Goodspeed-Chadwick continues to speak: … And they are great texts. And so, not to detract from Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and these great writers, but there are noticeable omissions.
[Video: A close-up of Goodspeed-Chadwick's hand as she takes a book from her office bookcase.]
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick picks out a book from her bookcase and looks at the cover.]
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick sits at her office desk and reads a book.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks in voiceover: And so, there are equally great women writers. Women writers have experienced the world differently. They are going to write literature …
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick appears on camera.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks: … that is going to reflect, potentially, a different view of the world, a different experience of the world, that might put forward different values.
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick returns a book to her bookcase.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks in voiceover: My work has been to look at how gender is represented in those texts.
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick appears on camera.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks: Now is the time to look at the really great body of work by men, but also women. You know, that we historically have not…
[Video: Goodspeed-Chadwick walks down an office hallway. An Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus sign can be seen behind her.]
Goodspeed-Chadwick speaks in voiceover: … become familiar with, that we haven't studied, that we haven't maybe delved into the way that we should because we didn't know it existed.
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[Words appear: INDIANA UNIVERSITY]
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[Words appear: iu.edu]
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Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick has a pocketful of titles at IUPUC. She is a professor of English, director of the Office of Student Research, an IU Bicentennial Professor, a teacher and an author.
While her duties vary from one title to another, there is a common thread: She channels a passion and love for literature through all of the work she does.
With that love and passion of literature comes a sense of advocacy that uses women's gender and trauma studies as well as literary studies as a lens to help students understand the world around them.
Goodspeed-Chadwick is fond of saying there will be a day when classes such as Introduction to Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, and Women and Literature won't be needed. "But we're not there yet," she said.
"How we come to represent gender in our writing and teaching has everything to do with how we interact with the world," she said. "Some of what I do is advocate in terms of helping students to interpret, navigate, understand and approach our world and ultimately to do something with that."
Goodspeed-Chadwick's specializations include 20th-century American literature, transatlantic modernism, women and literature, women's studies, and trauma studies.
She says the passion and love she brings to the work at hand stems from choosing to study the thing she loved: literature.
"I got to study literature, which is a privilege. I get to teach it, which is such a privilege. And because I never lost that love and passion, I am able to bring it to so much of my other work -- in the classroom, with Feminism Club at IUPUC, or in the Office of Student Research."
Her record of accomplishments and recognitions speaks for itself. Since joining the Division of Liberal Arts faculty at IUPUC in 2008, she has been the recipient of the IUPUI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the IU Trustees Teaching Award, the IUPUI Inspirational Woman Leadership Award, and the IUPUI Kathryn J. Wilson Award for Outstanding Leadership and Mentoring in Undergraduate Research. She was named a Mosaic Faculty fellow and recently was selected as one of 25 IU Bicentennial Professors, a program that is part of the university's continued commitment to public outreach and community engagement.
There are the accolades bestowed by students, too. One student wrote, "I became an English major because of her." Another said, "Her class is the best I've ever taken, and I am a business major." A third said, "Her teaching style is phenomenal, and she knows how to pick topics/readings that make students want to discuss them."
The path Goodspeed-Chadwick followed to her office at IUPUC began in Fort Wayne. "I really think that who I am is absolutely a direct tie to how I grew up," she said.
It was a childhood marked by two major influences: her mother and books.
With her mom's encouragement, Goodspeed-Chadwick developed a love of books. "Reading was a way that opened worlds; it was a way that opened not only vistas to what you could be, but what you didn't know -- to discover ideas you hadn't encountered and people and experiences different from yourself."
As she pursued her Ph.D. in English literature, Goodspeed-Chadwick planned to study all male, modernist writers such as Hemingway, Elliot, Pound and Fitzgerald.
Then she encountered a colleague in her academic department who studied only female writers.
"The lightbulbs went on," she said. "I saw a direct correlation to the world that helped me understand what was happening."
Those flashing bulbs led her to what she believed was a research area that needed to be explored: the response of modernist women authors to trauma. Her latest book, "Reclaiming Assia Wevill: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination," will be published this fall. Her examination of the subjects is informed by literary studies, women's studies and trauma studies.
Goodspeed-Chadwick is still considering what she will discuss when she gives community presentations as an IU Bicentennial Professor. But she is sure of two topics that will be included: women writers and feminism.