Kopelson, Kevin 1960-

PERSONAL:

Born January 23, 1960, in New York, NY; son of Kenneth Kopelson (a certified public accountant and attorney); mother a teacher and psychologist; companion of David Coster (a surgeon); children: Adam Coster, Seth Coster, Sam Coster. Education: Yale University, B.A., 1979; Columbia University, J.D., 1982; Brown University, M.A., 1988, Ph.D., 1991. Religion: Jewish.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Grinnell, IA. Office—Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Iowa, Iowa City, professor of English, member of executive committee, Sexuality Studies Program, 1997-2005. Harvard University, visiting scholar at Lowell House and fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 2002-03. Speaker at colleges, universities, and other venues; gives readings from his works, including radio broadcasts.

MEMBER:

Modern Language Association of America.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Rockefeller Foundation resident, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, 1995, 2005; Mellon fellow in humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-96; Camargo Foundation resident in Cassis, France, 1998.

WRITINGS:

Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1994.

Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1996.

The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 1997.

Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2004.

Sedaris, University of Minnesota Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2007.

Work represented in collections, including Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context, edited by Claude J. Summers, Haworth (New York, NY), 1992; Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality, edited by David Bergman, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1993; Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, edited by Claude J. Summers, Henry Hole (New York, NY), 1995; The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference, edited by Richard Dellamore and Daniel Fischlin, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1997; and Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage, edited by Jane Desmond, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2001. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Journal of Homosexuality, Yale Journal of Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Music, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, and Genders. Coeditor of special issue, GLQ, 1995.