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Combining poetry, wit, polemic and scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays range from discussions of Diderot, Oscar Wilde and Henry James to gay kids, political correctness and the poetics of spanking.
It is hard to imagine where queer theory would be without Eve Sedgwick. Indeed, I can't imagine where my own thinking would be had it not been informed, enriched, challenged, repulsed, and seduced by Sedgwick's writing. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire and The Epistemology of the Closet, the early work, gave me the tools to think about the fundamental landscapes of my.
By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Combining poetry, wit, polemic and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from discussions of Diderot, Oscar Wilde and Henry James to queer kids, political correctness adn the poetics of.
The First Annual Sedgwick Lecture. The Boston University Faculty Group for Gender and Sexuality Studies established the annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in 2010 to help nurture and inspire scholarship, discussion and activism on issues of gender and sexuality at Boston University, in the broader Boston community, and beyond.
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky Combining poetry, wit, polemic and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.The essays range from discussions of Diderot, Oscar Wilde and Henry James to queer kids, political correctness adn the poetics of spanking.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust.
By Andrew Parker, professor of English. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the 1980s. Photo by Frank Ward. A fter living for more than 13 years with metastatic breast cancer, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick died on April 12, 2009, in New York City. She was 58. Sedgwick taught English at Amherst from 1984 to 1989, during which time she helped to create the Women’s and Gender Studies department.
Epistemology of the Closet is a book published in 1990 by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who is considered one of the founders of queer studies. In Epistemology of the Closet, Sedgwick argues that standard binary oppositions limit freedom and understanding, especially in the context of sexuality.
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Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity.
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Remembering Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) Two brilliant women sadly passed away in April after long battles with cancer. The legendary small screen actress Bea Arthur (1922-2009), whose obituary was of course well publicized, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009), the scholar and activist who revolutionised gay and lesbian studies.
Eve Kosofsky married Hal Sedgwick in 1969; he survives her. Commentators often pointed out the juxtaposition between Sedgwick's transgressive and often radical writing on the limits of human sexuality with the fact that she maintained a married, monogamous, heterosexual relationship for decades.
Keynote: “A Free Radical’: Eve Sedgwick’s Queer Witness in A Dialogue on Love. Eden Wales Freedman, PhD Dr. Eden Wales Freedman is an Assistant Professor of English and Diversity Studies at Mount Mercy University and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire.
As many readers may be aware, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick passed away last weekend. Her friend Cathy Davidson has a tribute, and Duke University Press has noted it as well on its internal blog.I'm sure there will be much more to come from Eve's friends, colleagues, and students in the months to come.
This article uses Eve Sedgwick's 'Jane Austen and the masturbating girl' to explore the place of reading in contemporary critical practice. Noting that hostile accounts of Sedgwick have focused on her alleged inability to 'read closely,' the article argues that Sedgwick's work represents a wider move away from close reading to a criticism characterized by confession, autobiography, against-the.
Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and the Queer Gothic. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler in relation to Gothic fiction. But, in my view, it is no less important to consider how Gothic texts can be utilised to discuss queer scholarship and illustrate queer reading practices.