Background
Goodeve was born in Middlebury, Connecticut where she lived until her family moved to Windham, Vermont. Her brother is actor Grant Goodeve. She attended the Westover School, Middlebury, Connecticut and Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts. In 1975, through NMH, she attended The American School of Tangier where she met Paul Bowles and Mohammed Mrabet, key influences on her career as a writer. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College (creative writing, film, philosophy), an MA from New York University (Cinema Studies), and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz under Donna Haraway and James Clifford. She appeared as the graduate student in Yvonne Rainer's 1985 film The Man Who Envied Women and has been featured in artists’ works by Joseph Nechvatal, Bradley Rubenstein, and Ellen Harvey. She lives in Brooklyn Heights.
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