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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
Office
hours Mondays 2:00-3:30 and by appointment.
To
sign up for office hours, click here.
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Spring
2011 Courses
Fall 2011 Courses:
Other
Courses:
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Useful
resources:
Local
resources:
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Selected
publications:
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"'None
Need Think Their Sympathy Wasted': Reading Early American Books.”
Common-Place 9.3 (April 2009).
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"'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.")
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"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.
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"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).
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Opening
Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New
England. (Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 2003).
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"Consecrating a Rebellion: Ralph
Waldo Emerson, David Friedrich Strauss, and the Historical Jesus," Journal
of Unitarian Universalist History 24
(1997): 1-16.
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"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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