Stathis Gourgouris is Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is the author of Dream Nation (Stanford UP, 1996) and Does Literature Think? (Stanford UP, 2003), and editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham UP, 2010). He is currently at work on two books of “lessons in secular criticism”: The Perils of the One and Nothing Sacred.