Gordon Tapper
Gordon Tapper
Phone: 718.482.5669
Office: E-103 FF
Gordon Tapper has been teaching a variety of English courses at LaGuardia since 2003, including Basic Writing, Composition, Writing Through Literature, The Novel, LIB200 (focusing on Humanism and Genocide), and a Liberal Arts Cluster he helped develop called “Sex Wars: Sexuality, Power, and Culture in a Global Context.” He is a scholar of American literature and culture, with a special interest in twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, and his book about the poet Hart Crane, The Machine that Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body, was published by Routledge Press in 2006. In addition to publishing reviews of contemporary art and experimental poetry, he has written introductions for new editions of Willa Cather’s My Ántonia and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, both published by Barnes and Noble Classics. Professor Tapper holds a PhD and MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Colgate University. He has also taught at Columbia University, DePauw University, and Centre College.
Schools Attended: Colgate University BA; Columbia University PhD & MA
Area of Specialization: Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature and Culture, Modern and Postmodern Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Theory of the Body, Gender Studies, Literatures of Genocide.
Authors I teach: I'm always experimenting with new works, but recently I have taught Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Spiegelman's Maus, Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter in The Novel.
Articles:Introduction, notes, and bibliography for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007.
Introduction, notes, and bibliography for Willa Cather's My Ántonia. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.
"Morton Minsky Reads The Bridge: Hart Crane and the Meaning of Burlesque." Arizona Quarterly. Winter 2000.
"Thorny Rose." (fiction). MyWays. Ed. Rita McBride and David Gray. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Printed Matter, Inc. and Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006.
Conference Presentations :"A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: CUNY and Beyond." Delivered at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2007.
"LaGuardia Community College's Difficult Dialogues Project." Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, New Orleans, January 2007.
"Translation, Invented Victims, and the Social Construction of Authorship: Learning from the Yasusada Hoax." Delivered at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago. November 2005.
"The Invented Indian of The Bridge: Hart Crane and the Ethnographic Idea of Culture." Delivered at Modern Language Association Convention, December 2000.
"Directions in Poetics and Theory at the Millennium." Panel Chair, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2000.
"Hart Crane, Burlesque, and the Indecent Human Body." Delivered at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Penn State University, October 1999.
Grants:PSC-CUNY 39 Research Award, 2008-2009.
PSC-CUNY 38 Research Award, 2007-2008.
CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, Spring 2007.
CUNY Community College Collaborative Incentive Research Grant, 2005.
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