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

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Career

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

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. He joined

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, 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

and a Fellow at

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; 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."Robert S C Gordon"
''British Academy''. Retrieved 1 July 2018."Pier Paolo Pasolini and the work of subjectivity"
''University of Cambridge Library''. Retrieved 1 July 2018. According to his

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profile, Gordon's research has focused on "the cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy;

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literature ( specially that of

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); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust".

Honours and awards

In 2015, Gordon was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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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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