Kevin Kopelson

Kevin Kopelson
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

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.

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

Kopelson has published in the fields of sexuality studies,^[3] critical theory, cultural studies, and 20th-century literature.

Works

• 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

1. "Kevin Kopelson - Department of English - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - The University of Iowa". English.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
2. "Kevin Kopelson · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-23.
3. "Kevin Kopelson – LGBT Oral Histories of Central Iowa". Retrieved 2020-04-02.
4. 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
   • Allen, Dennis W. (Summer 1995), Modern Fiction Studies, 41 (2): 403–405, doi:10.1353/mfs.1995.0074, JSTOR 26285554, S2CID 163010820
   • Maynard, John (Winter 1996), Studies in the Novel, 28 (4): 597–599, JSTOR 29533170
5. Review of Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire:
   • Russ, Michael (May 1997), Music & Letters, 78 (2): 294–296, doi:10.1093/ml/78.2.294, JSTOR 737410
6. 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
7. Review of Sedaris:
   • Madden, Dave (Winter 2008), Prairie Schooner, 82 (4): 174–177, JSTOR 40639745

External links

• Personal website^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• Professional website