Profile
Terri Gordon is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersections of memory studies, gender studies, and cultural production. She is currently writing a book on the literature of memory in post-dictatorship Chile. Her co-authored book with Eric Zolov,听,听came out in May 2022 in Berghahn Books' "Protest, Culture & Society" series. She mounted a photography exhibition with Eric Zolov, 鈥溾 at the LACS (Latin American and Caribbean Studies) Gallery at Stony Brook University in 2021-22. She is on the advisory board of Women's Studies Quarterly and has co-edited two WSQ volumes: "At Sea" and "Citizenship." Her work has appeared in听Latin American Literary Studies,听Journal of the History of Sexuality, Nottingham French Studies, Sociologica,听The Nation, NACLA and Cabinet Magazine, amongst others.听Her translation of Jean Genet's Elle was adapted for an off-Broadway production in 2002. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in the areas of ethics and literature, gender studies, and the aesthetics of the body.听听
Professor Gordon previously served as Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Schools of Public Engagement, Director of the Gender Studies Program at 麻豆传媒色情片, and Director of Jewish Cultural Studies at the Schools of Public Engagement.
Degrees Held
PhD in Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2000
Certificate in Women's Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University, Fall 1995
MA in French Literature, Columbia University, 1993
BA in Political Science and French, Duke University
Professional Affiliation
Member of听WSQ听(Women's Studies Quarterly) Advisory Board, Fal 2024-present
Member of WSQ (Women's Studies Quarterly) Editorial Board, Spring 2008-Spring 2024
Member of MSA (Memory Studies Association)
Member of MLA (Modern Language Association)
Member of LASA (Latin American Studies Association)
Recent Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
(2022), co-authored with Eric Zolov, 鈥淧rotest, Culture & Society鈥 series of Berghahn Books.听
Guest editor (with Amy Sodaro) of听WSQ听(Women鈥檚 Studies Quarterly)听issue 45 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2017).
Guest editor (with Robin Rogers) of听WSQ听听issue 38:1&2 (Spring/Summer 2010).
Selected Articles, Essays, Book Chapters, and Interviews
鈥,鈥 special feature, 鈥淭he Many Faces of Protest: Rethinking Collective Action in a World of Dissent,鈥 Sociologica 17:1 (2023).
鈥,鈥 Revista Kmcero, special issue, 鈥淟a ciudad estallada,鈥 by Amanda Contreras, Francisca Cares y Muriel Alarc贸n, November 14, 2022.
鈥: Scholars Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov discuss the aesthetics and significance of the Chilean estallido,鈥 Interview by Jordi Marin茅 Jubany, Public Seminar,
The Brooklyn Rail, June 2022.
NACLA, 25 October, 2020.
Co-author (with Eric Zolov), " The Nation, 7 November, 2019.
听Latin American Literary Review听43:86 (2015): 59-80.
听in WSQ Citizenship issue 38:1&2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 271-86.
in the American Philosophical Society (APS) quarterly journal, Proceedings 152:4 (December 2008): 440-465.
鈥淒ebt, Guilt, and Hungry Ghosts: A Foucauldian Perspective on Bigert鈥檚 and Bergstr枚m鈥檚 Last Supper,鈥 Cabinet Magazine Online, June 2006, ed. Sina Najafi.
鈥淕irls Girls Girls: Re-membering the Body,鈥 in Rhine Crossings: France and Germany in Love and War, ed. Peter Schulman and Aminia Brueggemann (New York: SUNY, 2005), 87-118.
special issue of The Journal of the History of Sexuality 11:1-2 (Spring 2002): 164-200.听 Reprinted in Sexuality and German Fascism, ed. Dagmar Herzog (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005), 164-200.
Jazz Adventures in French Culture, ed. Jacqueline Dutton and Colin Nettelbeck, special issue of Nottingham French Studies 43:1 (Spring 2004): 39-52.听 Reprinted as in Josephine Baker: A Century in the Spotlight 6.1-6.2 (fall 2007-spring 2008), ed. Kaiama Glover, in 鈥淭he Scholar & Feminist Online,鈥 Barnard Center for Research on Women.
鈥淪alome Returns with a Vengeance: Liliana Cavani鈥檚 The Night Porter (1974),鈥 in The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, Consumer Culture, ed. Frederick Lubich and Peter Schulman (Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2003), 160-177.
Performances and Appearances
鈥,鈥 presentation and conversation with Marcel Sol谩, Pablo Zamorano and Eric Zolov, Digital Memory Studies Association, April 5, 2024.
, The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution & Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile, commentary by 脕ngel S贸to, University of Los Andes, and Claudio Rolle, Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile, August 27, 2021 (invited talk).
Printed Matter roundtable discussion on graphic resistance practices in the 2019-20 Chilean Social Uprising and the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, hosted by Feria Impresionante and Gato Negro Ediciones, July 17, 2020.听 Panelists included: Terri Gordon & Eric Zolov, co-authors of The Walls of Santiago (Berghahn Books); Gonzalo Guerrero, Secret Riso Club; Eric Von Haynes, Flatlands Press, Shani Peters and Joseph Cuillier, The Black School.
Research Interests
Transitional justice, post-authoritarian literature, social protest movements, memory studies, cultural production
Portfolio