John Swan Gordon, M.A., Ph.D. (1945-) is professor emeritus in English, Connecticut College, New London. John Gordon retired from teaching at Connecticut College in 2015. Most of John Gordon's work has been on the writing of James Joyce. His two books published on the subject are James Joyce's Metamorphoses and Finnegans Wake: A Plot Summary and a monograph, Notes on Issy. He has also published some fifty articles and notes on the subject, and has delivered a comparable number of papers and numerous reviews. He has been elected as a member of the board of the International James Joyce Society. In addition to the introductory courses taught by all members of the English department, John Gordon has taught courses in Modern Poetry, Contemporary Literature, and most recently, "Modernism and Its Discontents," which alternates between canonical texts of the period, sometimes called High Modernism, and popular novels of the same time.