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College of Arts and Humanities

Sean A. Gordon

Assistant Professor

English Department | 559.278.4766 | Office: PB 456

seangordon@csufresno.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.A. Boston University

Courses Taught

ENGL 193: The Plantationocene
ENGL 32: Readings in U.S. Literature
Sean Ash Gordon (he/they) is Assistant Professor of American Literature with an emphasis on environmental colonialism and social justice at California State University, Fresno. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in spring 2021 and joined the English Department at Fresno State in fall 2022. Dr. Gordon has also taught courses in English and Communication at Keene State College.
  • 19th Century American Literature
  • American Studies
  • Slavery and Abolition
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Climate Change
  • History of Science
  • Settler Colonialism
Articles and Other Writing

“Afterthoughts on a Pedagogy of Dehiscence" (forthcoming). Romantic Circles Pedagogies Commons.

“Counter Monument: Notes on Abolition May” (2021). Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies.

“Wangechi Mutu Explores Afrofuturism and The New Humanism with Ndoro Na Miti” (2017). Paste.

Public Humanities

“Irreverence toward the Canon" (2021). C19 Podcast.

"Abolition" (2021). High Theory.