Robert S.C. Gordon
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Cultural Studies
Panel Judge
Robert S.C. Gordon is Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge University.
Robert works on modern Italian literature, cinema and cultural history. He is the author or editor of over a dozen volumes, including a study of the writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pasolini. Forms of Subjectivity) and several books on the work of Primo Levi (e.g., Primo Levi’s Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics, Auschwitz Report, The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi). He has also published on the wider field of post-war cultural responses to the Holocaust, in the book The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010, the co-edited collection Holocaust Intersections, and a special issue of the journal Quest.
He is co-editor of Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-Century Italy and his work on cinema includes the book on Pasolini, the BFI Film Classics volume Bicycle Thieves, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries, and articles and essays on Holocaust cinema, early film and literature, Hollywood on the Tiber, and censorship. He is also the author of a general account of modern Italian literature, A Difficult Modernity: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian Literature. He has taught at Oxford and Cambridge University, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
