Jane Gordon
Assistant Professor
Gladfelter 442
Email: jgordon1@temple.edu
Phone: 215-204-7787
Bio: Jane Anna Gordon earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She is the author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 (Routledge, 2001), which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on Civil Rights, and co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell’s, 2006), which was chosen as the NetLibrary eBook of the Month for February 2007, and Not Only the Master’s Tools (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). She is also coauthor of the forthcoming Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers) and is completing her next book, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Fordham University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Gordon teaches modern and contemporary political thought, black political thought, politics and theory of education, modern women political thinkers, political theory in literature and film, and race and politics.
Courses Taught:
PS 1996, Introduction to Political Theory
PS 4940, Seminar in Political Philosophy: Modern Women Political Thinkers
PS 4420, Seminar in Political Philosophy: Radical Theories of Education
PS 3911, Politics in Literature and Film
Selected Publications:
“Challenges Posed to Social-Scientific Method by the Study of Race.” In A Companion to African-American Studies, pp. 279–304.
“The Gift of Double Consciousness: Some Obstacles to Grasping the Contributions of the Colonized.” In Postcolonialism and Political Theory, edited by Nalini Persram. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
“Failures of Language and Laughter: Anna Julia Cooper and Contemporary Problems of Humanistic Pedagogy,” Philosophical Studies in Education 38 (2007): 163–178.
“Democratic Transitions: A Review Essay of George Carew’s Democratic Transition in Postcolonial Africa and Charles Tilly’s Democracy,” Journal of Asian and African Studies 34, no. 4 (2008): 471–478.
“Performing Legitimate Power: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow,” Performance Research 2, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 150–155. [Review Essay]
“Hannah Arendt’s Political Theology of Democratic Life,” Journal of Political Theology 10, no. 1 (2009): 24 m.s. pp.
Special Issue: “Creolizing Rousseau.” Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts. The C.L.R. James Journal, forthcoming, summer 2009.
“Beyond Anti-Elitism: Black Studies and the Pedagogical Imperative,” The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 32, no. 1 (2009): 22 m.s. pp.
CV: Dr. Jane Gordon