Research Interests

• printmaking in northern Europe (1450–present)
• graphic arts during World War I
• art and the biological sciences

Significant & Ongoing Projects

Goddard joined the staff of the Spencer Museum of Art in 1984, following the completion of this PhD at the University of Iowa and a year in a post-doctoral position at the Yale University Art Gallery. His major projects at the Spencer Museum throughout his career have included: The World in Miniature: Engravings by the German Little Masters, 1500–1550; Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books, ca. 1890; An Eye on Flanders: The Graphic Art of Jules De Bruycker; Ubu's Almanac: Alfred Jarry and the Graphic Arts; Remembering the Family Farm: 150 years of American Prints; Brion Gysin: A Selection of Books and Works on Paper; Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground: Xu Bing’ Book Works; A Greenland Glacier: The Scale of Climate Change, Photographs by Terry Evans; Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture; Machine in a Void: World War I & the Graphic Arts; Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing; and Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World.