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College of Arts and Humanities

Sean A. Gordon

Assistant Professor

English Department | 559-278-4766 | Office: Peters 456

seangordon@csufresno.edu

Education

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

Spring 2025 Office Hours
Tuesdays 1:00pm-4:00pm (virtual)
Wednesday 9:00am-11:00am (in person)

Courses Taught

ENGL 250T: Abolitionist Poetics
ENGL 205: Research Methods in English Studies
ENGL 193T: The Plantationocene
ENGL 193T: Climate Change Literature
ENGL 188T: William Faulkner
ENGL 155: Modern & Contemporary American Lit.
ENGL 154: American Lit. 1865 to World War I
ENGL 153: American Lit. to 1865
ENGL 105: Textual Analysis
ENGL 103: Masterpieces of American Lit.
ENGL 32: Readings in U.S. Lit.

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.

Sean is the student advisor for the Fresno State chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and sits on the faculty advisory board for the Students of English Studies Association. He is a member of the California Faculty Association (CFA) Bargaining Team.

Spring 2025 Office Hours
Tuesdays 1:00pm-4:00pm (virtual)
Wednesday 9:00am-11:00am (in person)
  • 19th Century American Literature
  • American Studies
  • Slavery and Abolition
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Climate Change Literature
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • History of Science
  • Settler Colonialism
Articles and Other Writing

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

"The Seed Is the Fruit: Thoreau and Abolitionist Extravagance" (under contract). Oxford Companion to Henry David Thoreau.

"Lyric Screaming: On Simone White, Misery, and Collectivity" (2024). The Hopkins Review.

"Open letter to President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval" (2023). The Collegian.

“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.