Robert Samuel Clive Gordon, FBA (born 13 March 1966) is a scholar of Italian studies and an academic.

Born on 13 March 1966, Robert Samuel Clive Gordon completed his undergraduate studies at Pembroke College, Oxford.

He joined St John's College, Cambridge, to complete a doctorate; his PhD was awarded in 1993 for his thesis "Pier Paolo Pasolini and the work of subjectivity".

The following year, he was appointed Serena Professor of Italian at Cambridge.

[1][2][3] According to his British Academy profile, Gordon's research has focused on "the cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature ([especially that of] Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust".