Kevin Kopelson


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.
  • Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire.
  • The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky.
  • Finishing Proust
  • Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk.
  • Sedaris.
  • Confessions of a Plagiarist: And Other Tales from School.
  • ''Adorno and the Showgirl: Or Late Style''