Barbara Elizabeth Goff is a Classics Professor at the University of Reading.
She later completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley on Euripides' Hippolytus supervised by Donald Mastronade, publishing the work as The Noose of Words: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytus in 1990.
[4] Goff's first job was as a Junior Research Fellow at King's College Cambridge.
[11] Goff is a member of the Ancient and Modern Imperialisms Network, based in Reading and helps to run the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network,[12] based in Reading, and is an executive committee member of the Classical Reception Studies Network, based at the Open University.
[13] Goff is on the international editorial boards of the Classical Receptions Journal (published by the Oxford University Press)[14] and of Elektra (University of Patras)[15] and is on the advisory board of the AHRC project 'Classics and Class', based in King's College London.