Rate My Professor John Goshert

John Goshert serves as a faculty member in the Department of English & Literature at Utah Valley University within the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. He holds a PhD in English from Purdue University (2001), an MA in English from Sonoma State University (1996), and a BA in English from Sonoma State University (1994). Goshert teaches courses focused on literature and writing, including ENGL 3540: Contemporary American Literature, ENGL 3890: Contemporary Critical Approaches to Literature, and ENGL 2010: Intermediate Academic Writing for Spring 2026. His scholarly and creative works demonstrate engagement with contemporary literature, critical theory, punk culture, and related topics through publications and presentations.

Goshert has presented extensively at academic conferences, with recent papers such as "Devo’s Agitprop Aesthetics: Benjamin, Brecht, Booji Boy" at PAMLA in Palm Springs, CA (October 2024), "Anyone but not Everyone: Politics of Early Punk Film" at the Punk Scholars Network in Chicago (August 2024), "Semiotics of Nostalgia and Liberation in The Sellout" at PAMLA (November 2023), "Devo’s Angel of History: Booji Boy as Apocalyptic Prophet" at PSN in Chicago (August 2023), and "Queer Comradeship: Cruising Culture and Revolutionary Politics in Two Gay Classics" at PAMLA in Las Vegas. He has delivered 35 or more presentations. Key publications include the books "Entering the Academic Conversation: Strategies for Research Writing" (Pearson Higher Education, 2011) and "Strategies and Resources for Teaching Entering the Academic Conversation" (Longman, 2011); articles such as "You (plural): Political Configurations of Punk’s DIY Ethos" (vol. 11, issue 2, 2022), "I was there! Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk and the Resistance to Eulogy" (vol. 43, issue 3, 2020), and "Farrah in Kalihi/Kalihi in Farrah: Marginalization and Appropriation in Rolling the R’s" (2016); and the creative release "Empire of the Senseless" on Bandcamp (2024). Goshert received the Faculty Excellence Award from the UVSC School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, multiple Course Release Awards for Research from UVSC School of HASS (including Fall 2006-Spring 2007 and January 2008), and other honors. He serves on the Faculty Senate RTP & Appeals Committee representing the College of Humanities & Social Sciences (term ending 2024).