LISA GORDIS

Professor of English
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-2114

lgordis@barnard.edu
Mailbox: Barnard 417
On leave, 2008-2009.


Spring 2008 Courses:

·       English BC3180y:  American Literature, 1800-1870

·       FYSB BC 1181: The American Supernatural


Fall 2007 Courses:

·       English BC3179x:  American Literature to 1800

·       English BC 3997:  Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America


Other  Courses:

·       American Studies 3002y:  Approaches to American Culture, 1607-1865 (Spring 1999)

·       English BC3997x:  Nineteenth-century American Women Writers  (Fall 2003)

·       English BC3193x:  Literary Criticism and Theory

Useful resources:

·       useful links in American literature and culture

·       Columbia Library reference tools

o   Addall.com (new books / used books)

o   Books in Print

o   CLIO

o   Early American Newspapers

o   Early English Books Online

o   Eighteenth Century Collections Online

o   Evans Digital Edition

o   JSTOR

o   MLA Bibliography

o   Oxford English Dictionary

o   Project Muse

o   http://booksforchildren.pbworks.com

o   http://professorgordis.pbworks.com

·       Local resources:

o   Barnard College English Department

o   Barnard College

o   Courseworks

o   BEATL


Selected publications:Opening Scripture cover


Current project:

"The word in it self": Transparency and Substance in Early Quaker Language
 (book manuscript) explores the paradoxical complexities generated by early Quaker theories of simplicity in language, drawing on seventeenth-century English and eighteenth-century American Quaker writings, and considering their impact on the political activity of eighteenth-century Quakers in the Pennsylvania Assembly and on the broader American literary tradition, especially in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
 


whales

Humpback whales lunge-feeding off the coast of Maine.   August 1996.