Robert Gordon (academic)

Robert Gordon

Born| 13 March 1966
Education| Doctor of Philosophy
Occupation| Romanist
Awards|

* Fellow of the British Academy (2015)

Position held| Serena Professor of Italian (2012-)

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.

## Career

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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

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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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* (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

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1. ^ "Gordon, Prof. Robert Samuel Clive", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 1 July 2018.
2. ^ a b c "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.

## External links

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* University of Cambridge profile

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