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 (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)