Prof. Stathis Gourgouris

Professor

University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Comparative Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. 1990 UCLA (Comparative Literature)
M.A. 1984 UCLA (Comparative Literature)
B.A. 1981 UCLA (Independent Concentration in the Humanities)

Principal Publications

Books:

Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford University Press, 1996). Greek translation (Kritike, 2007); Serbian translation (Belgrade Circle, 2004)

Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford University Press, 2003). Greek translation (Nefeli, 2005)

Articles (selected):
“Poiein – Political Infinitive” in PMLA Volume 123 (1), March 2008 [Theories and Methodologies Forum on New Lyric Studies, Yopie Prins and Virginia Jackson eds.]

"Ζizek’s Realism” essay commissioned as part of the DVD release of the film Slavoj Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual, produced by Ben Wright and Olive Films, 2007

“The Dream Reality of the Ruin” in Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project, Andrew Benjamin and Beatrice Hanssen, ed. (New York: Continuum, 2006 – Walter Benjamin Studies Series, Vol. II), 201-224.

“Orientalism and the Open Horizon of Secular Criticism” in Social Text 87 (24:2), Summer 2006, 11-20 [Memorial Issue on Edward Said, Gyan Prakash and Ella Shohat, eds.] – [Greek translation in Approaching the Other: Ideology, Methodology, Hermeneutics, Yiannis Kyriakidis and Martha Michailidou eds., Athens: Metaichmio, 2006]

“The Politics of Anti-Americanism” in The Temptation of Empire, Polymeris Voglis, Yiannis Papatheodorou, Ioanna Laliotou, eds. (Athens: Metaichmio, 2006), 171-190 [in Greek]

“The Foundational False Dilemma of Georg Lukács” in Planodion 39 (December 2005), 483-489 [in Greek]

“The Late Style of Edward Said” in Alif 25 (2005), 37-45 [Special issue]. Turkish translation (by Orhan Koçak) in Virgül, 89 November 2005. Reprinted as part of the volume: Edward Said and Critical Decolonization, Ferial Ghazoul, ed. (American University of Cairo Press, 2007)

“Transformation, not Transcendence” in boundary 2 30:2 (Spring 2004). Special Issue: Critical Secularism, Aamir Mufti, ed.

“DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name” in Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood, eds. (Princeton University Press, 2004)

“The Lyric in Exile: Meditations on the Hollywood Songbook” Qui Parle 14(2), Fall 2004, 145-176 [Special Issue: Aural Aesthetics: Music, Aesthetics, Language]

“Music Drama and Spontaneous Composition: A Conversation with Heiner Goebbels” PAJ: A Journal in Performance and Art 78 (Fall 2004)

“The Concept of Diaspora in the Contemporary World” in Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks, 16-20th Centuries, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004)

“Hypnosis and Critique (Film Music for the Balkans)” in Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation, Dušan Bjeli? and Obrad Savi?, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002).

“Communism and Poetry” in Gramma 8 (2000), 43-54.

“A Comment on ‘Dareios’” in “...what these Ithakas mean...” Readings in Cavafy, Artemis Leontis, Lauren E. Talalay, Keith Taylor eds. (Athens: Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive, 2002), 117.

“The Paradoxical Order of Seferis” in Eleftherotypia (June 9, 2000), 15-16 [Special Issue: 100 Years of Seferis – in Greek]

“The Ark’s Void, circa 2nd Millennium” in Step-Mothertongue, Mehmet Yashin, ed., (London: Middlesex University Press, 2000), 70-86.

“Polis and Poisis – Heidegger’s Dilemma” in diavazÇ 399 (September 1999), 114-116. [Special Issue: Heidegger and Hellenicity -- in Greek]

Poetry (in Greek):

Εισαγωγή στην Φυσική  (Athens: Melani, 2005)

Αυτοχθονίες  (Athens: Planodion, 1993)

Πτώσεις   (Athens: Plethron, 1989)

[in English]
Poems in A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000, Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck, eds. (New York: Cosmos Publishers, 2004).

Poems in Modern Poetry in Translation 13 (London, 1998) [Special Issue on Greek Poetry, David Ricks, ed.]

Translations:

Book:

Yiannis Patilis, Camel of Darkness (Selected Poems 1970-1990), [from Greek]. Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Book Series (Volume 36), 1997. Excerpts reprinted in the publication of the 31st International Poetry Festival, Rotterdam: Netherlands, 2000.

Poetry:

Poems by Yiannis Patilis, and Argyris Chionis in A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000, Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley, Karen Van Dyck, eds. (New York: Cosmos Publishers, 2004).

Poems by Heiner Müller [into Greek, with introduction] in Poisis 15 (May 2000), 180-189

Poems by Yiannis Patilis and Argyris Chionis in Agenda 36 (3-4), 1999 [Special issue on Greek Poetry: New Voices, David Connolly, ed.]

Argyris Chionis, Esotic Landscapes (excerpts), Modern Poetry in Translation 13, (London,1998), 53-55 [Special Greek Poetry Issue, David Ricks, ed.]

Poems by Carolyn Forché [into Greek], I Lexi 58 (Oct. 1986) and Planodion 4 (Fall 1987) [The latter includes interview with the poet]

Reviews and Review Essays

Entries on Alexandros Papadiamantis and Yiannis Ritsos in The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Olive Classe, ed., (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), Vol. II, 1037-1038; 1173-1176

Dimitris Tziovas, To palimpsesto tis ellinikis afigisis [The Palimpsest of Hellenic Narrative] in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 15 (1), May 1997, 140-142.

Mimika Kranaki, Filellines [Philhellenes] in Planodion 21, December 1994, 591-595 [in Greek]

Takis Simotas, Loipos Oplitis [Partial Soldier] in Planodion 18, June 1993, 113-116. [in Greek]

Yiorgos Chouliaras, Fast Food Classics in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 11:1 (May 1993), 173-177 [Greek version published in Planodion 17, December 1992, 576-580]