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Paul Gordon
Professor of Comparative Literature
Office: Ketchum 222
Phone: 303-492-6227
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I have taught at the University of Colorado since shortly after receiving my Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale, where I studied with Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Shoshana Felman and others. Since then I have been developing my interest in theories of literature through studies in psychoanalysis, film, music, and painting as well as in the continued study of literary theory and the general hermeneutic question of how one "reads" art and literature.
My primary interest is in the relationship between art, literature and philosophy. In my writing and teaching I follow the Heideggerian notion of truth as the "happening" of truth in which the work of art becomes the locus of its own unique paradigm of questions and answers. My research involves the study of figuration (the "critical double"), tragedy ("rapturous superabundance"), psychoanalysis and, currently, the relationship between art and metaphysic (the "absolute").
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The Critical Double: Figurative Meaning in Aesthetic Discourse.
(Foreword by J. Hillis Miller). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.
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Tragedy After Nietzsche: Rapturous Superabundance.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
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Dial 'M' for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock
Farleigh Dickenson Press (Forthcoming, 2007).
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Words Words Words: The Un-Usual Suspects. Procedings of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (in Press).
Illustration of J. Hillis Miller: Word and Image, vol.24/1 (2006)
Oedipal Echo-Effects in Kill Bill I/II. Under Review.
Revis(ion)ing Freud's Medusa: On Castration and the C-Word. Under Review.
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"Oedipal Echo-Effects in Kill Bill I/II." Invited Lecture, Honors Department, March 2005.
"Illustration of J. Hillis Miller." Invited paper at the Conference Honoring J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine (May 2003); Jacques Derrida, Keynote.
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Fall '08 Courses
