MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Prof. Stathis Gourgouris

Professor

University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Comparative Literature

 

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1990 UCLA (Comparative Literature)

M.A. 1984 UCLA (Comparative Literature)

B.A. 1981 UCLA (Independent Concentration in the Humanities)

 

II. Areas of Specialization

Literary Theory (Philosophy, Psychoanalysis)

18th - 20th Century European Literature (including Greek)

 

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Literature and National Identity

Literature of Exile

Myth and History – the Modern Greek Novel

Greece and the Modern Imagination

 

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Books:

Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford University Press, 1996).

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

Recent Articles:

“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)

 

“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 Bjeliƒ and Obrad Saviƒ, eds. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002).

 

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

Poetry (in Greek):

Autochthonies (Athens: Planodion, 1993)

Ptoseis (Athens: Plethron, 1989)

V. Office Address

UCLA

Department of English and Comparative Literature

231C Royce

New York, NY 10025

 

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(310) 825-9255

 

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

511 West 113th Street, Apt. 51

New York, NY 10025

 

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(212) 866-0939

 

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

Last revised May 25, 2006

 

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