Terri Gordon has been teaching at The New School since 1998.  She has also taught at Barnard College and Columbia University.  She received her Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she specialized in French, German and British literature of the modernist period.  She has published on the cabaret, post-war film, and performance art in the Third Reich, and her translation of Jean Genet’s Elle was adapted for an off-Broadway production in the summer of 2002.  She received the New School Distinguished University Teaching Award in 2003 and teaches interdisciplinary courses in the areas of ethics and literature, gender studies, urban studies, and the aesthetics of the body.