Alan Goff

Alan Goff is Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at DeVry University–­Phoenix. He received an MA in English and one in political science from BYU and a doctorate in humanities from the University at Albany. His publications include “Scratching the Surface of Book of Mormon Narrative,” FARMS Review of Books 12, no. 2 (2000): 51–82, and “The Mormon Positivismusstreit: Modern vs. Postmodern Approaches to Telling the Story of Mormonism,” in Telling the Story of Mormon History, ed. William G. Hartley (Provo, Utah: Smith Institute, 2004), 49–64. His book on violence in the Book of Mormon narrative and the thought of René Girard will be published in 2014.