Andrew Gordon
Associate Professor
Andrew Gordon received
his BA from Rutgers in 1965 and his PhD from Berkeley in 1973. He has
been a member of the UF faculty since 1975, teaching American Fiction
since 1945, Jewish-American Fiction, and Science Fiction Literature
and Film. He has also been a Fulbright Lecturer in Spain (1973–75), Portugal (1979), and Yugoslavia (1984–85),
a visiting professor of contemporary American Literature in Hungary
(1995) and Russia (1997), and an invited lecturer at universities in
France, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Poland. In the summer of 2001,
he taught in the UF program in Rome, and in the spring of 2007, in Paris.
Professor Gordon’s publications include An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer (Farleigh Dickinson/Associate University Presses, 1980); an anthology co-edited with Peter L. Rudnytsky, Psychoanalyses/Feminisms (SUNY Press, 2000); and a book co-authored with UF sociologist Hernan Vera, Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). His most recent book is Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). In addition, he has 70 essays and 30 reviews in journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Saul Bellow Journal, on Jewish-American writers such as Bellow, Ozick, and Kosinski, on other contemporary writers such as Barth and Pynchon, and on contemporary American science fiction and SF films. He is currently working on a book on the science fiction and fantasy films of Steven Spielberg.
He is co-editor of Studies in Jewish American Literature and an editorial consultant to Science Fiction Studies and the PSYART e-journal. His essay, “Star Wars: A Myth for Our Time” was translated into Swedish and his essay with UF sociologist Hernan Vera on film versions of “Mutiny on the Bounty” was translated into French, as was his essay on Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl.”
He directs the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA) and, with Norman Holland, organizes the annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4332
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 254
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <agordon@ufl.edu>