Kevin Kopelson
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Born | 1960 |
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 |
Notable works | Neatness Counts |
Kevin Kopelson (born 1960), 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, he is Emeritus Professor of English at The University of Iowa.
Fields
Kopelson has published in the (related) 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)
References
- ^ http://www.english.uiowa.edu/people/kevin-kopelson Kopelson Profile, University of Iowa