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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).
• Finishing Proust (2000)
• 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

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{{citation}}: 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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Maynard, John (Winter 1996), Studies in the Novel, 28 (4): 597–599, JSTOR 29533170{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
7. Review of Sedaris:
   • Madden, Dave (Winter 2008), Prairie Schooner, 82 (4): 174–177, JSTOR 40639745{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

External links

• Personal website
• Professional website

• University of Iowa faculty
• Living people
• Yale University alumni
• Columbia Law School alumni
• Brown University alumni