Westar Institute

Gregory Erickson has taught at NYU’s Gallatin School since 2004, specializing in courses on modern literature, popular culture, and religion, including “Beyond Language: The Surreal, the Mystical, and the Monstrous;” “Religion and Popular Culture;” and “The Idea of Nothing.” He is the author of The Absence of God in Modernist Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and the coauthor, with Richard Santana, of Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred (McFarland, 2008; 2016). Erickson was co-editor of and contributor to Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art (De Gruyter, 2017), and his book on James Joyce, Christian heresy and the modernist literary imagination is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Erickson is also a classical musician and performs regularly with professional orchestras and chamber ensembles.