I am an Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. Click on a course to view the syllabus: 
American Fiction Since WW II
Jewish-American Fiction
Science Fiction
I have written on contemporary American novelists such as Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, on the films of Steven Spielberg and of George Lucas, and on other science-fiction and fantasy films. I am also Director of the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA), help organize the annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology, serve on the editorial board of the e-journal Psyart, and co-edit Studies in American Jewish Literature.
Articles
Altamont
You’ll Never Get Out of Bedford Falls: The Inescapable Family in American Science-Fiction and Fantasy Films
“Choosing the Necessary”: Remarks by Saul Bellow to Padgett
Shame and Saul Bellow’s “Something to Remember Me By”
Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir
Star Wars: A Myth for Our Time
Close Encounters: Unidentified Flying Object Relations
Trouble in River City, or Lacan’s “The Agency of the letter in the unconscious”
Jewish Fathers and Sons in Spiegelman’s Maus and Roth’s Patrimony
Other Links
Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer
Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA)
American Literature Resource Website
Office: TUR 4332
Office Phone: 392-6650 x254
Fax: (352) 392-0860
Mailbox: TUR 4301
E-mail: agordon@ufl.edu
Mailing address:
Professor Andrew Gordon
Department of English
PO Box 117310
Gainesville, FL32611-7310