Robert Gordon (academic)
Robert Samuel Clive Gordon, FBA is a scholar of Italian studies and an academic. Since 2012, he has been Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge.Career
Born on 13 March 1966, Robert Samuel Clive Gordon completed his undergraduate studies at Pembroke College, Oxford. He joined St John's College, Cambridge, to complete a doctorate; his PhD was awarded in 1993 for his thesis "Pier Paolo Pasolini and the work of subjectivity". He was elected a lecturer and fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1990, and left in 1998 to become a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he was promoted to senior lecturer in 2001, a readership in 2006, and a professorship in 2011. The following year, he was appointed Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge.
According to his British Academy profile, Gordon's research has focused on "the cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature ; postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust".Honours and awards
In 2015, Gordon was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.Selected publications
- Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium.
- The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010.
- 'Sfacciata fortuna': La Shoah e il caso/'Outrageous Fortune': Luck and the Holocaust.
- Bicycle Thieves.
- Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi.
- Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi, Auschwitz Report.
- A Difficult Modernity: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian Literature.
- Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy.
- Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics.
- Primo Levi, The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961–1987.
- Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity.
