Stathis Gourgouris Explained

Discipline:Comparative Literature
Awards:Guggenheim Fellowship (2022)
Native Name:Στάθης Γουργουρής
Native Name Lang:gr

Stathis Gourgouris (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Στάθης Γουργουρής|) is a poet, essayist, translator, sound artist, and professor of classics, English, Comparative Literature at Columbia University.[1] He also writes opinion pieces on contemporary politics and culture in newspapers and internet media in both Greek and English. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.[2] He was also a former president of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2006-2012) and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia (2009-2015). He is a member of the Sublamental Artists Collective,[3] which releases his music and sound art compositions under the name Count G.[4]

Biography

Gourgouris earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., all from the University of California, Los Angeles.[5] [6] He taught at Princeton University from 1992 to 2000, Columbia University from 2002 to 2005, University of California, Los Angeles from 2005 to 2008, before rejoining Columbia's faculty in 2008.[7] He was also a visiting professor at the National Technical University of Athens.

Gourgouris' writings focus on the intersection between the poetics and politics of modernity and democracy.[8] He has written extensively on Ancient Greek philosophy, political theory, and contemporary Greek culture and politics.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Stathis Gourgouris . 2022-04-25 . Stathis Gourgouris . en-US.
  2. Web site: Four Columbians Win Guggenheim Fellowships . 2022-04-25 . Columbia News . en.
  3. Web site: Sublamental Records . 2022-07-17 . 2023-07-14 . live . Feb 4, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230204124837/https://sublamental.com/node . sublamental.com . en-GB.
  4. Web site: Count G . 2022-07-18 . Count G . en.
  5. Web site: Stathis Gourgouris The Department of English and Comparative Literature . 2022-04-25 . english.columbia.edu.
  6. Web site: Modern Greek Studies Association . 2022-04-25 . www.mgsa.org.
  7. Web site: Curriculum Vitae . April 25, 2022.
  8. Web site: Rethinking Greece: Stathis Gourgouris on democratic autonomy . 2022-04-25 . www.greeknewsagenda.gr.
  9. Web site: LeBor . Adam . 2015-07-09 . To emerge from the ruins Greece must shift focus to rebuilding and reform . 2022-04-25 . Irish Examiner . en.