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.
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.
[1] In 1986, she published Women of the Left Bank, which explores the lives and works of some two dozen American, English and French women among the Paris expatriate literari, including Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, H. D., and Bryher.
[3] She subsequently married Bernard Benstock, a James Joyce scholar, who died in 1994.
[4] 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.