Shari Benstock

Shari Gabrielson Goodmann (December 2, 1944 May 26, 2015), who published under the name Shari Benstock, was chairperson of the English department and associate dean for faculty affairs at the University of Miami and a feminist literary scholar. She was an expert on literary modernism, and a biographer of Edith Wharton.

Life Early life and education Shari Gabrielson was born in San Diego on December 2, 1944, the daughter of Dana and Myrl (Barth) Gabrielson. She grew up in Iowa and was educated at Luther College, Drake University, and Kent State University.

Career She edited Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature from 1983 until 1986. With Celeste Schenck, she established "Reading Women Writing" at Cornell University Press, one of the first book series dedicated to women's writing and feminist scholarship. She subsequently married Bernard Benstock, a James Joyce scholar, who died in 1994. In 2004, she married Thomas Goodmann, associate professor of English at the University of Miami, who cared for her in the last decade of her life during which she suffered from early onset dementia.

Works Who's He When He's at Home: A James Joyce Directory, 1980 (with Bernard Benstock) Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940, 1986 The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings, 1988 (editor) Coping With Joyce: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium] 1989 (editor with Morris Beja) “No Gifts from Chance”: A Biography of Edith Wharton, 1994 (editor) On Fashion, 1994 (editor with Suzanne Ferriss) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. 1994 (editor) Footnotes: On Shoes, 2001 (editor with Suzanne Ferriss) A Handbook of Literary Feminism, 2002 (with Suzanne Ferriss)