Stathis GourgourisStathis Gourgouris (PhD, Comparative Literature, UCLA) is Professor of Comparative Literature and English, cross-listed with Classics, and the former director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is the athor of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996), Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, 2003), and Lessons in Secular Criticism (Fordham 2013) and the editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2010); he is also an award-winning poet with four volumes of poetry and a collection of essays published in Greek. He writes regularly in internet media (such as The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, and The Immanent Frame) on political and literary matters. Read More Read Less