Stathis Gourgouris

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Stathis Gourgouris (Greek: Στάθης Γουργουρής) is a poet, essayist, translator, sound artist, and professor of classics, English, Comparative Literature at Columbia University.^[1] He also writes opinion pieces on contemporary politics and culture in newspapers and internet media in both Greek and English. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.^[2] He was also a former president of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2006-2012) and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia (2009-2015). He is a member of the Sublamental Artists Collective,^[3] which releases his music and sound art compositions under the name Count G.^[4]

Biography

Gourgouris earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., all from the University of California, Los Angeles.^[5][6] He taught at Princeton University from 1992 to 2000, Columbia University from 2002 to 2005, University of California, Los Angeles from 2005 to 2008, before rejoining Columbia's faculty in 2008.^[7] He was also a visiting professor at the National Technical University of Athens.

Gourgouris' writings focus on the intersection between the poetics and politics of modernity and democracy.^[8] He has written extensively on Ancient Greek philosophy, political theory, and contemporary Greek culture and politics.^[1][9]

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