Professor Goldberg teaches intermediate and advanced courses in international literatures and human rights, Babson's interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Foundation course, and a summer course in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She currently holds the Mandell Family Term Chair (2007-2012).

Dr. Goldberg was voted Professor of the Year by the graduating classes of 2007, 2008, and of 2009 and has received the Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference Award (2007), the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006), and the faculty Innovators Among Us award (2004).

Author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2007), Dr. Goldberg has published articles in journals and edited collections in the areas of multicultural literature and pedagogies, gender studies, and human rights. She recently edited a special issue of the transnational journal Peace Review devoted to the subject of literature, film, and human rights (Spring 2008), and is currently co-editing a collection of essays on torture since 9/11. She is co-editor, with Alexandra Schultheis, University of North Carolina, of Theoretical Perspectives on Literature and Human Rights (Routledge, 2011).

Dr. Goldberg currently serves as Chair of the Board of The Emancipation Network, and on the Editorial Board of the international journal Teaching in Higher Education. She has recently concluded a term as Chair and Commissioner of the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission.