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Professor
of English
Barnard
College
3009
Broadway
New
York, NY 10027
(212)
854-2114
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lgordis@barnard.edu
Mailbox:
Barnard 417
On
leave, 2008-2009.
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Spring 2008
Courses:
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English
BC3180y: American
Literature, 1800-1870
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FYSB BC
1181: The
American Supernatural
Fall
2007 Courses:
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English
BC3179x: American Literature
to 1800
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English
BC 3997: Reading
and Writing Women in Colonial America
Other
Courses:
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American
Studies 3002y: Approaches
to American Culture, 1607-1865 (Spring 1999)
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English
BC3997x: Nineteenth-century
American Women Writers (Fall
2003)
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English
BC3193x: Literary
Criticism and Theory
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Useful
resources:
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useful
links
in American literature and culture
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Columbia
Library reference tools
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Addall.com
(new books / used
books)
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Books
in Print
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CLIO
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Early
American Newspapers
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Early
English Books Online
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Eighteenth
Century Collections Online
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Evans
Digital Edition
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JSTOR
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MLA
Bibliography
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Oxford
English Dictionary
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Project
Muse
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http://booksforchildren.pbworks.com
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http://professorgordis.pbworks.com
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Local
resources:
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Barnard
College English Department
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Barnard
College
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Courseworks
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BEATL
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Selected
publications:
"'None
Need Think Their Sympathy Wasted': Reading Early American
Books.” Common-Place
9.3 (April
2009).
"'Bring
Forth the Old Because of the New': Early Americanists and
Contemporary Culture," Early
American Literature
41.2
(2006): 369-375. (Response to the American Antiquarian Society's
2005 conference on "Histories
of Manuscript, Print, and Performance in America.")
"The
Conversion Narrative in Early America," in A
Companion to The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology,
ed. Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer. (Malden, Massachusetts
and London, England: Blackwell, 2005) 369-386.
"Spirit
and Substance: John Woolman and 'the Language of the Holy One,'"
in The
Tendering Presence: Essays on John Woolman,
edited by Mike Heller. (Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill
P, 2003).
Opening
Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan
New England·
(Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 2003).
"Consecrating
a Rebellion: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Friedrich Strauss, and
the Historical Jesus," Journal
of Unitarian Universalist History 24
(1997): 1-16.
"The
Experience of Covenant Theology in George Herbert's
The
Temple,"
The
Journal of Religion 76.3
(July 1996): 383-401.
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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.
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Humpback
whales lunge-feeding off the coast of Maine. August 1996.
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