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Lisa Gordis
Professor of English
Lisa Gordis joined the Barnard faculty in 1993. Among the courses she teaches are "American Literature to 1800," "American Literature 1800-1870," "Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America," and "The American Supernatural." She directs the first-year seminar program and serves on the executive committee of the Barnard American studies program.
Her research focuses on early American literature, especially Puritan and early Quaker writings. She is currently working on a book about early Quaker theories of language, under the working title The Word in It Self: Transparency and Substance in Early Quaker Language.
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 (2006)
"Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America: The Seminar Wiki and Social Authorship, " in New Media in Education 2006: A Progress Report, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, New York, New York, 27 January 2006. (See "Related Link" on this Web page.)
"The Conversion Narrative in Early America," in A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology, ed. S. Castillo and I. Schweitzer (Malden, MA, and London, England: Blackwell, 2005)
"Spirit and Substance: John Woolman and 'the Language of the Holy One'," in The Tendering Presence: Essays on John Woolman, ed. M. Heller (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Press, 2003)
Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003)
"Consecrating a Rebellion: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Friedrich Strauss, and the Historical Jesus," Journal of Unitarian Universalist History 24 (1997)
"The Experience of Covenant Theology in George Herbert's 'The Temple'," The Journal of Religion 76 (July 1996)
212.854.2114
lgordis@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., Harvard University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
RELATED LINKS:
"Reading and Writing Women in Colonial America...."
SPECIALIZATION:
Early American literature