Kevin Kopelson is an American literary critic. He received a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.[1] Currently,[when?] he is Emeritus Professor of English at The University of Iowa.
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Years active | 1994–present |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Iowa |
Influences | Roland Barthes[citation needed] |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Gender studies literary criticism cultural studies 20th century in literature |
He is a contributor to the London Review of Books.[2] He writes on topics ranging from fin-de-siècle literature to fashion photography.
Fields
editKopelson has published in the fields of sexuality studies,[3] critical theory, cultural studies, and 20th-century literature.
Works
edit- Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics (Stanford University Press, 1994).[4]
- Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire (Stanford University Press, 1996).[5]
- The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky (Stanford University Press, 1997).[6]
- Finishing Proust (2000)
- Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
- Sedaris (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).[7]
- Confessions of a Plagiarist: And Other Tales from School (Counterpath Press, 2012).
- Adorno and the Showgirl: Or Late Style (2016)
References
edit- ^ "Kevin Kopelson - Department of English - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - The University of Iowa". English.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ "Kevin Kopelson · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
- ^ "Kevin Kopelson – LGBT Oral Histories of Central Iowa". Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ Review of Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics:
- Schehr, Lawrence R. (1995), SubStance, 24 (3): 135–137, doi:10.2307/3685016, JSTOR 3685016
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Allen, Dennis W. (Summer 1995), Modern Fiction Studies, 41 (2): 403–405, doi:10.1353/mfs.1995.0074, JSTOR 26285554, S2CID 163010820
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Maynard, John (Winter 1996), Studies in the Novel, 28 (4): 597–599, JSTOR 29533170
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- Schehr, Lawrence R. (1995), SubStance, 24 (3): 135–137, doi:10.2307/3685016, JSTOR 3685016
- ^ Review of Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire:
- ^ Review of The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky:
- Muller, Patrick (2000), Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2000 (19): 77–78, doi:10.17077/2168-569X.1339
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- Muller, Patrick (2000), Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2000 (19): 77–78, doi:10.17077/2168-569X.1339
- ^ Review of Sedaris: