Robert Samuel Clive Gordon, FBA (born 13 March 1966) is a scholar of Italian studies and an academic. Since 2012, he has been

Serena Professor of Italian The Serena Professorship of Italian is the senior professorship in the study of Italian language, literature and culture at the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Manchester and University of Birmingham. At Cambridge, it ...

at the University of Cambridge.

Career

Born on 13 March 1966, Robert Samuel Clive Gordon completed his undergraduate studies at

Pembroke College, Oxford Pembroke College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is located at Pembroke Square, Oxford. The college was founded in 1624 by King James I of England, using in part the endowment of merchant Thomas Tesdale, and was named after ...

. He joined

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

, 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

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''University of Cambridge Library''. Retrieved 1 July 2018. According to his British Academy profile, Gordon's research has focused on "the cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature ( specially that of Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust".

Honours and awards

In 2015, Gordon was elected a

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...

, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected publications

* (Co-edited with A. Bangert and L. Saxton) ''Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium'' (Legenda, 2013). * ''The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944–2010'' (Stanford University Press, 2012). * '''Sfacciata fortuna': La Shoah e il caso/'Outrageous Fortune': Luck and the Holocaust'' (Einaudi, 2010). * ''Bicycle Thieves'' (Palgrave/BFI Film Classics, 2008). * (Editor) ''Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi'' (Cambridge University Press, 2007). * (Editor) Leonardo De Benedetti and Primo Levi, ''Auschwitz Report'' (Verso, 2006). * ''A Difficult Modernity: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian Literature'' (Duckworth, 2005). * (Co-edited with G. Bonsaver) ''Culture, Censorship and the State in Twentieth-Century Italy'' (Legenda, 2005). * ''Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics'' (Oxford University Press, 2001). * (Co-edited with M. Belpoliti) Primo Levi, ''The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961–1987'' (New Press, 2000). * ''Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity'' (Oxford University Press, 1996).

References

External links

University of Cambridge profile
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