1 CURRICULUM VITAE Stathis Gourgouris Professor of Classics
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CURRICULUM VITAE Stathis Gourgouris Professor of Classics, English, Comparative Literature & Society Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Office Address: Home Address: Department of Classics 410 Riverside Drive Apt. 71 Columbia University New York, NY 10025 617 Hamilton Hall 212-866-0939 New York, NY 10025 email: [email protected] EDUCATION 1990 PhD, Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles Doctoral thesis: National Imaginary Orders: Neohellenism and the Institution of Modern Greece 1984 MA, Comparative Literature, UCLA (Major in French) 1981 BA in Individual Field of Study, Division of Honors, UCLA Honors Thesis: The Concave Reflection of Historical Realism Languages: French, Modern Greek; reading knowledge of Ancient Greek, German, Italian, Spanish EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2008 – Professor, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Department of Classics, Department of English, Columbia University 2005-2008 Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA 2002-2005 Associate Professor, Center for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University 2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University 1995 Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, National Technical University, Athens, Greece 1992-2000 Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature, Princeton University 1 TEACHING HISTORY Undergraduate Courses Introduction to the Humanities (Ancient to Renaissance; 16 th c. to Modern) Classic and Contemporary Civilizations (Ancient to Modern) Modernism in Fiction/Poetry/Drama Introduction to Literary Theory Literature and National Identity The Seduction of the West: Utopia or Otherness Literature of Exile Greece and the Modern Imagination Myth and History in the Modern Greek Novel The Culture of Democracy Greek Poets and their Interlocutors The World Responds to the Greeks Introduction to Comparative Literature and Society Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature and Society Graduate Courses Methods in Comparative Literature The Secular Imagination Anarchy: History, Theory, and Prospects Modernity, Terminable and Interminable Theatricality The Epistemology of Edward Said The Production of the Past The World, the Text, and the Critic Humanism and the Human Radical Democracy From Post-Symbolist to Post-Modern Poetics Feminist Horizons: Between Law and Psychoanalysis Literature, Theory, Performance Myth, Law, and Enlightenment 2 ACADEMIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION a) within university Director of Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University (2009-2015) Committee on Global Core Curriculum, Columbia University (2009-) Educational Policy and Planning Committee's Subcommittee on Global Education, CU (2012-14) Facilities Director Search Committee (2014-15) Fulbright Evaluation Committee (2013) Co-Director, Program in Hellenic Studies, Columbia University (2009-2012; 2015-16) Elected to the Faculty Senate, Columbia University (2010-2012) Executive Committee, Center for Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia U (2009-2015) Committee on Graduate Education, English Department, Columbia University (2011; 2014) Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature, UCLA (2006-2007) Director of Undergraduate Studies, CCLS, Columbia University (2004-2005) Special Consultant to the Dean of the College, Columbia U; Core Curriculum (2001-2002) Faculty Fellow and Freshman Adviser, Mathey College, Princeton University (1999-2000) Elected to Committee on Conference and Faculty Appeals, Princeton University (1996-99) Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature, Princeton University (1993-94; 1995-97) b) professional field ACLA Harry Levin Book Prize Committee (2014-2017) Evaluation Committee for ACLS Mellon Dissertation Fellowships (2013-2014) Evaluation Committee for National Center for the Humanities (2012-2014) Evaluation Committee for Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University (2012-2014) Executive Board of the MLA Committee on Classics and Modern Literature (2011-2016) President of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2006-2012) Board of Supervisors of the English Institute, Harvard University (2006-2009) Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly (2001-2004) Executive Board of the MLA Committee on European Literary Relations (1999-2004) MGSA Executive Board (1993-96; 2000-2003; 2006-2009; 2009-2012) Chair of MGSA Symposium Program Committee (1996-97) RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS 2015 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award 2015-17 Center for the Study of Social Difference Faculty Research Grant 2011 Heyman Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship for Rethinking the Human Sciences 2011 Chang Chavkin Global Core Summer Fellowship 2004 International Poetry Prize, 4 th International Poetry Festival, Sapanca, Turkey 2003-2004 National Endowment for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece 2000-2001 Senior Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis, Rutgers University 3 1998 (Spring) International Institute and Program in Comparative Literature, University of Michigan 1996-97; 1999-2000 Old Dominion Faculty Fellowship, Princeton University 1994-95 Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowship, Princeton University 1990-92 University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Ohio State University 1988-89 Fulbright-Hays Foundation Dissertation Research Grant 1984-85 Axios Foundation Fellowship EDITORIAL WORK, JOURNALISM, MEDIA, ART WORK, PERFORMANCE Currently on the Advisory Editorial Board of journals: boundary 2 , Political Concepts , Social Imaginaries , Phantasia , Journal of Greek Media and Culture , International Journal for Transitional Justice , Belgrade Journal of Media and Communication, Synthesis , Journal of Modern Greek Studies Regular writings on contemporary politics or matters of public interest in Greek newspapers Avgi, Eleftherotypia, To Vima, Ta Nea and internet media sites Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Social Text, The Immanent Frame, Analyze Greece, Chronos, Greek Left Review , New Philosopher , Open Democracy, Possible Futures, Radical Desire Member of Hellenic Authors’ Society and Poets Circle (ΚΥΚΛΟΣ ΠΟΙΗΤΩΝ ) in Athens, Greece 2015 “The SYRIZA Problem: Radical Democracy and Left Governmentality in Greece” in OpenDemocracy, August 6. https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/stathis- gourgouris/syriza-problem-radical-democracy-and-left-governmentality-in-g 2015 Conversations with Obrad Savi ć (Belgrade Circle) in the Los Angeles Review of Books Part I “Dream Nation and the Phantasm of Europe” http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/dream- nation-and-the-phantasm-of-europe-part-i; Part II “Poetics and the Political World” http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/poetics-and-the-political-world-obrad-savic-interviews- stathis-gourgouris-part-ii 2015 SynTalk on The Realm of Things , conversation with nanophysicist Pushan Ayyub and archaeologist Sharada Srinivasan, recorded in Mumbai, India, on February 28. http://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/trot/ 2014 “Immigration and Neocolonialism in Greece’s European Crisis” Conversations with Aamir Mufti, in Greek Left Review : http://greekleftreview.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/stathis- gourgouris-interviews-aamir-mufti/ and Journal of Modern Greek Studies : https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_modern_greek_studies/Mufti_interview.pdf 2013 Podcast interview on Lessons in Secular Criticism with Arne de Boever for the Los Angeles Book Review http://soundcloud.com/lareviewofbooks/larb-podcast-49-stathis 2012 Interviews with the late Alan Saunders on The Philosopher’s Zone , Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, June 10 & 17 4 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/thinking-out-loud/4057874 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/thinking-out-loud---lecture- three/4073584 2012 Contributor to Vassiliea Stylianidou’s Holidays in Greece , Sound/Poetry installation at STUDIOvisits Gallery, Berlin, May 11-18 2010 Participant in Tino Sehgal’s This Progress , Performance in Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 29 – March 10 2009 Contributor to Jordan Essoe’s Semaphores , Installation at Ambersand International Art Gallery, San Francisco, January 16 – February 28 2004 Poetry performance from Introduction to Physics , staged by the Women’s Theater Collective directed by Evangelia Andritsanou, Phones Club, Athens, April 4. 1999-2009 Correspondent for the Athens daily newspaper Eleftherotypia (articles on international politics; contemporary culture; literary reviews) 1995-2005 Consultant to the television series On the Paths of Thought – intellectual profiles of world prominent thinkers, commissioned by Greek National Television; co-producer of 14 profiles 1986-2008 Associate Editor in Greek literary journal Planodion (Regular column: Passports ) 1988-2003 Group for the Study of Composite Cultures at UCLA; founding member of the Group’s journal Emergences ; Supervising Editor (1989-90), Literature Editor (1991), Associate Editor (1998-2003) 1982-83 Editorial Collective of Praxis (cultural criticism; Praxis Group in Art and Society, UCLA) PUBLICATIONS Books: Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford University Press, 1996) [Serbian translation by Dušan Djordjevic Mileušni ć (Belgrade: Circulus, 2004), with new preface. Greek translation by Thanasis Katsikeros