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

External links

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