Stathis Gourgouris

Stathis Gourgouris ( Greek Στάθης Γουργουρής , * 1958 in Los Angeles ) is a Greek-American comparator , neo-Greekist and poet .

Life

Gourgouris was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in Athens . He studied Comparative Literature and Modern Greek at the University of California, Los Angeles , where he received his Ph.D. Since then he has taught at Columbia University , New York . He has also held visiting professorships at Princeton University , Yale University , UCLA and the National Technical University of Athens . In addition to his literary writings on the Greek Enlightenment and on the formation of the Greek nation state and on literary theory , he has published four volumes of poems in the modern Greek language.

His main focus areas are literary theory, modernist poetics , the Enlightenment, pre-Socratic philosophy and contemporary modern Greek poetry . In addition, he also deals with experimental music .

Fonts (selection)

Literary writings

• Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece. Stanford University Press, Stanford 1996.
  • Modern Greek version: Έθνος-όνειρο: Διαφωτισμός και θέσμιση της σύγχρονης Ελλάδας. Κριτική, Athens 2007.
• Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2003.
  • Modern Greek version: Στοχάζεται η λογοτεχνία; Η λογοτεχνία ως θεωρία σε μια αντιμυθική εποχή. Εκδοσεις Νεφελη, Athens 2006.
• Lessons in Secular Criticism. Fordham University Press, Bronx, NY 2013.
• as editor: Freud and Fundamentalism. The Psychical Politics of Knowledge. Fordham University Press, Bronx, NY 2010.

Volumes of poetry

• Ενδεχομένως Αταξίες. Athens: Nissos, 2016.
• Εισαγωγή στη Φυσική. Athens: To Melani, 2005.

Web links

• Personal page at Columbia University
• Personal page on Biblionet.gr (in modern Greek)
• Personal page on the Alexander Onassis Foundation website (in modern Greek)