Robert Gordon (academic)

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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 at the University of Cambridge.

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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. [1] [2] [3]

According to his British Academy profile, Gordon's research has focused on "the cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature ([especially that of] Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust". [2]

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. [2]

Selected publications

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References

  1. "Gordon, Prof. Robert Samuel Clive", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Robert S C Gordon", British Academy. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  3. "Pier Paolo Pasolini and the work of subjectivity", University of Cambridge Library. Retrieved 1 July 2018.