Kevin Kopelson

Kevin Kopelson
Years active	1994–present
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Iowa
Influences	Roland Barthes
Academic work
Main interests	Gender studies literary criticism cultural studies 20th century in literature

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. Currently, he is Emeritus Professor of English at The University of Iowa.

He is a contributor to the London Review of Books. He writes on topics ranging from fin-de-siècle literature to fashion photography.

Fields

Kopelson has published in the fields of sexuality studies, critical theory, cultural studies, and 20th-century literature.

Works

• Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics (Stanford University Press, 1994).
• Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire (Stanford University Press, 1996).
• The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky (Stanford University Press, 1997).
• Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
• Sedaris (University of Minnesota Press, 2007).
• Confessions of a Plagiarist: And Other Tales from School (Counterpath Press, 2012).
• Adorno and the Showgirl: Or Late Style (2016)

External links

• Personal website
• Professional website