Lisa Goff

Associate Professor of English and American Studies

Office Address/Hours

412 Bryan Hall / 2-5 p.m. Fridays, via Zoom (link on syllabi) or in person by request in Bryan 412.

Class Schedule

TR 3:30-4:45, 5:00-6:15

Ph.D., History, University of Virginia,

MSJ, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

BA with Honors, English Literature, College of William and Mary in Virginia,

Cultural history and landscapes, migration, public history, point-of-view journalism

Shantytown, U.S.A.: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor, Harvard University Press, 2016. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title.

Stories in the Soil: Black and White Material Culture at James Madison’s Montpelier, University of Virginia Press, forthcoming 2027.

Take Back the Archive, takeback.scholarslab.org, 2014-2019 A digital archive of the history of sexual violence at the University of Virginia.

“Finding Virginia’s Freetowns,” a digital database of Reconstruction-era Black settlements in central Virginia

“Shanty,” New Literary History 56:2 (November 2025)
“Under cover: clandestine removals of Confederate statues thwart opportunities for anti-racist public,” PLATFORM, September 2021
“In path of pipeline, descendants of freedmen fight to preserve historic Virginia landscape,” PLATFORM, June 27, 2019
“‘Something pretty out of very little’: Graniteville Mill Village, 1848,” March 2019, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Public Service Award, UVA, 2023
Karsh Institute of Democracy, Working Group Grant, “Home Places: Mapping Black Virginia,” 2023-2024
Diversity and Inclusion Grants, College of Arts and Sciences, 2023-2024, 2022-2023, 2018-2019
Monticello Dinner Series Participant, Seven Society, UVA, 2023