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Stathis Gourgouris
Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies. He is the
author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996), whose 25th Anniversary Edition was published (with
a new preface) in 2021; Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, 2003); Lessons in Secular Criticism (Fordham 2013); The
Perils of the One (Columbia, 2019); and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2010), Thinking with Balibar (Fordham 2020), and The Cavafy
Dossier (2021).
He writes regularly in internet media (such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Open Democracy, Al Jazeera, The Immanent Frame), as well as major Greek
newspapers and journals on political and literary matters. Contingent Disorders – a collection of such essays on poetics and politics, written in Greek over a period
of 25 years (including a number of unpublished pieces) – was published in 2016. He is also an internationally awarded poet, with four volumes of poetry published in Greek, most recent being Introduction to Physics (Athens, 2005). His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish, Arabic, Japanese and Hebrew. His sound and poetry collages have been performed or presented at installations on various occasions internationally – including at documenta 14 (2017).
