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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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#179

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#562

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#90

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Philology

#33

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#127

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#4

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Degrees

Masters English Cornell University
Bachelors English Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory, and critical theory. Sedgwick published several books considered groundbreaking in the field of queer theory, and her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies, in which she was one of the most influential figures. Sedgwick's essays became the framework for critics of poststructuralism, multiculturalism, and gay studies.

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Epistemology of the Closet (1992) (4188)
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) (2464)
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003) (1949)
Paranoid reading and reparative reading, or, You're so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you (1997) (392)
Shame and its sisters : a Silvan Tomkins reader (1995) (366)
Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You (2002) (366)
Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel (1993) (349)
Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins (1995) (325)
How to Bring Your Kids up Gay (1991) (293)
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions (1980) (272)
Friendship as a Way of Life (2004) (249)
Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (1997) (211)
Performativity and Performance (1995) (197)
Queering the Renaissance (1993) (152)
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl (1991) (122)
The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel (1981) (105)
A Dialogue on Love (1998) (89)
After Sex?: On Writing Since Queer Theory (2011) (82)
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes (2007) (79)
How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War On Effeminate Boys (1993) (56)
INTRODUCTION : PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE (2013) (54)
The Weather in Proust (2011) (49)
Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex."@@@Tendencies. (1995) (40)
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (2011) (36)
Shame, Theatricality, and Queer Performativity: Henry James’s The Art of the Novel (2002) (32)
A epistemologia do armário Epistemology of the closet (2007) (29)
Privilege of Unknowing (2012) (29)
SHAME IN THE CYBERNETIC FOLD : READING (2010) (24)
Tide and Trust (1989) (23)
Queers in (Single-Family) Space (1994) (20)
Fat Art, Thin Art (1994) (19)
Queer Performativity: Warhol’s Shyness/Warhol’s Whiteness (2012) (18)
Gary In Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher (1996) (17)
Trace at 46 (1980) (16)
Across Gender, Across Sexuality: Willa Cather and Others (1989) (16)
Post-Princess Models of Gender : The New Man in Disney / Pixar (2008) (15)
The 1001 Seances (2011) (14)
Privilege of Unknowing: Diderot’S The Nun (1993) (13)
The Truth of Masks (2004) (11)
The Misunderstanding: Toward a More Precise Sexual Vocabulary with Shirley Walton, 1984) (2000) (11)
PERFORMATIVIDAD QUEER THE ART OF THE NOVEL DE HENRY JAMES (1999) (10)
The Future Is Kid Stuff (2004) (10)
Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne, and Male Homosocial Desire (1984) (8)
Anality: News From the Front (2010) (7)
Autonomy and Conformity (2000) (7)
The Importance of Being Bored: The Dividends of Ennui in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1997) (7)
Pedagogy of Buddhism (2002) (6)
Lip-Reading: Woolf’s Secret Encounters (1997) (6)
Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins Written with Adam Frank (2002) (6)
Same-Sex Unions in Modern Europe: Daniel Deronda, Altneuland, and the Homoerotics of Jewish Nationalism (1997) (6)
Compassion’s Compulsion (2004) (5)
Around the Performative: Periperformative Vicinities in Nineteenth-Century Narrative (2002) (5)
Flogging is Fundamental: Applications of Birch in Swinburne’s Lesbia Brandon (1997) (4)
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions試訳(2) (2012) (4)
Brest Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction (2017) (4)
Chapter Five. Toward the Gothic: Terrorism and Homosexual Panic (2015) (4)
The Autochoreography of an Ex-Snow Queen: Dance, Desire, and the Black Masculine in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Rooms (1997) (3)
Wizards, Warriors, and the Beast Glatisant in Love (1997) (3)
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods (2011) (3)
Making Things, Practicing Emptiness (2011) (3)
Reality and Realization (2011) (3)
Why the (Lesbian) Child Requires an Interval of Animal: The Family Dog as a Time Machine (2009) (2)
Chapter One. Gender Asymmetry and Erotic Triangles (2015) (2)
Introduction from between Men (1985) (2)
Balzac’s Queer Cousins and Their Friends (1997) (2)
“A Physical Relation between Physical Things”: The World of the Commodity according to Kenneth Anger (2002) (2)
The “Sinister Fruitiness” of Machines: Neuromancer, Internet Sexuality, and the Turing Test (1997) (2)
Billy Budd: after the homosexual (1989) (2)
The Personal Is Political: Consciousness Raising and Personal Change in the Women’s Liberation Movement with Shirley Walton, 1971 (2000) (2)
A Response to C. Jacob Hale (1997) (2)
Tearing the Goat’s Flesh: Crisis, Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity (1997) (2)
The Female World of Exorcism and Displacement (Or, Relations between Women in Henry James’s Nineteenth-Century The Portrait of a Lady) (1997) (1)
“Excreate A No Sense”: The Erotic Currency of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons (2002) (1)
Chapter Nine. Homophobia, Misogyny, and Capital: The Example of Our Mutual Friend (2015) (1)
Andy Warhol and the Crises of Value’s Appearances (2002) (1)
Writing the History of Homophobia (2014) (1)
Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with (2016) (1)
To Die For (1997) (1)
The Use of Being Fat (1994) (1)
All the World's a Closet (1991) (1)
Note on “The Warm Decembers” (1994) (1)
Thinking through Queer Theory (2001) (1)
Pedagogy in the Context of an Antihomophobic Project (1990) (1)
Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods (2006) (1)
Making Gay Meanings (2011) (1)
Sexuality and Professions (2004) (1)
Caricature and Collective Insult (2004) (0)
Affect Theory and Theory of Mind (2011) (0)
Coda. Toward the Twentieth Century: English Readers of Whitman (2015) (0)
An Essay on the Picture Plane (1994) (0)
The Third Sex (2004) (0)
“In dreams on which decades of marriage haven’t” (1994) (0)
“Trying All Kinds”: Louisa May Alcott’s Pedagogic Erotics (2002) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Honeymoon with a Stranger: Private Couplehood and the Making of the National Subject (2002) (0)
Chapter Six. Murder Incorporated: Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2015) (0)
Queer Nation: Early/Modern France (2005) (0)
Love among the Ruins (2002) (0)
The M Multiplying: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Pleasures of Influence, Part 1 (2002) (0)
Chapter Ten. Up the Postern Stair: Edwin Drood and the Homophobia of Empire (2015) (0)
Chapter Eight. Adam Bede and Henry Esmond: Homosocial Desire and the Historicity of the Female (2015) (0)
Shelley’s Heart (2000) (0)
The Shadow Economy of Queer Social Capital: Lucien de Rubempré and Vautrin (2003) (0)
Undoing the Histories of Homosexuality (2005) (0)
Feeling Like Killing?: Murderous Motives of the Queer Child (2009) (0)
The Subjected “Soul” (2004) (0)
The Warm Decembers (1994) (0)
Everything Always Distracts (1994) (0)
An Unspeakable Vice (2004) (0)
Chapter Three. The Country Wife: Anatomies of Male Homosocial Desire (2015) (0)
It seems there are two kinds of marriage (1994) (0)
What Drives the Sexual Child?: The Mysterious Motions of Children's Motives (2009) (0)
Colette, the Moulin Rouge, and Les Vrilles (2006) (0)
Resistance and Counterdiscourse (2004) (0)
Sodom and Gomorrah: Proust’s Narrator’s First Person (2006) (0)
Always Already Queer (French) Theory (2005) (0)
Defying “Development”: Thomas Day’s Queer Curriculum in Sandford and Merton (1997) (0)
Bringing Down the House: The Blacklist Musical (2009) (0)
Petrified Laughter: Jews in Pictures, 1947 (2009) (0)
From the Appendix to Mother Camp: Field Methods (1972) (2000) (0)
“In dreams they’re interchangeable” (1994) (0)
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky : March 2nd, 1981 (1981) (0)
“A scar, just a scar” (1994) (0)
Chapter Seven. Tennyson's Princess: One Bride for Seven Brothers (2015) (0)
Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin (2006) (0)
Strange Gourmet: Taste, Waste, Proust (1997) (0)
Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction (2006) (0)
I can tune my mind today (1994) (0)
From Momentary Pleasures to Social Reform (2004) (0)
Much More Beauty (2004) (0)
The Smart Child Is the Masochistic Child: Pedagogy, Pedophilia, and the Pleasures of Harm (2009) (0)
The “Preoccupation with Homosexuality” (2004) (0)
From Night to the Light of Day (2004) (0)
The Birth of Perversion (2004) (0)
Little kid at the airport practicing (1994) (0)
Chapter Two. Swan in Love: The Example of Shakespeare's Sonnets (2015) (0)
What I would be when I grew up (1994) (0)
Gide, Bourget, and Proust Talking (2006) (0)
Inseminating the Orient, Disseminating Identity (2000) (0)
The Will to Disturb (2004) (0)
Come As You Are (0)
Compelled by personal experience and the spate of highly publicized queer youth suicides in the United States in late 2010, Cover wrote Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? to demonstrate the relevance (2014) (0)
“One of us falls asleep on the other’s shoulder” (1994) (0)
Questions of Register in and around 1902 (2006) (0)
Homosexuality and Unreason (2004) (0)
Gender and Imagination (1987) (0)
It Takes One to Know One: Lollards, Sodomites, and Their Accusers (1999) (0)
Joy. He’s himself today! He knows me! (1994) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
“Not like the clownish, friendly way you talk” (1994) (0)
Gide and Posterity (2006) (0)
“Beyond the Critics’ Reach”: John Waters and the Trash Aesthetic (2002) (0)
The Performative and the Peri (2004) (0)
The City and Conservative Discourse (2004) (0)
Eulogy (2002) (0)
Working like a Homosexual: Vincente Minnelli in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Freed Unit (2002) (0)
To Tell or Not to Tell (2004) (0)
Pandas in trees (1996) (0)
“I’m safe so long as the single feather of one wing” (1994) (0)
The Greeks against the Psychiatrists (2004) (0)
On Not Getting Married in a Balzac Novel (2003) (0)
The Individual and the Group (2004) (0)
Philosophy in the Closet (2004) (0)
The Flight to the City (2004) (0)
When I got so sick it never occurred to me (1994) (0)
Foreword The Eve Effect (2015) (0)
Forged in Crisis: Queer Beginnings of Modern Masculinity in a Canonical French Novel (1997) (0)
Chapter 5 : Time Out , Space Beyond and the Other Body : Queer Presence in Twelfth Night (2005) (0)
Will the Real Lesbian Community Please Stand Up? 1982/1998 (2000) (0)
Margot-la-boulangère and the Baronne-aux-épingles (2004) (0)
The Immediate Country, or, Heterosexuality in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (2002) (0)
An Open Letter to “Manda Cesara” (1984) (2000) (0)
Feeling and Affiliation in Willa Cather (2001) (0)
Philosopher and Lover (2004) (0)
3.2 ‘Breast Cancer: An Adventure in Applied Deconstruction’ (1999) (0)
The Impulse to Escape (2004) (0)
“Grave, never offering back the face of my dear” (1994) (0)
Family and “Melancholy” (2004) (0)
Epilogue: Beyond Tolerance (2000) (0)
A Nation of Artists (2004) (0)
Subjectivity and Private Life (2004) (0)
Introduction: The Invert, the Foundling, and the “Member of the Tribe” (2001) (0)
When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling?: Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape (2006) (0)
Influence and Invitation: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Pleasures of Influence, Part 2 (2002) (0)
Introduction: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere (2000) (0)
The Shock of Insult (2004) (0)
All I know is I woke up thinking (1994) (0)
The Democracy of Comrades (2004) (0)
“That Troth Which Failed to Plight”: Race, the Wedding, and Kin Aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! (2002) (0)
Guys who were 35 last year are 70 this year (1994) (0)
Excerpt from Womenfriends with Shirley Walton, 1976 (2000) (0)
Visibility at the Limits of Inclusion (2000) (0)
For years it drove me crazy (1994) (0)
Chapter Four. A Sentimental Journey: Sexualism and the Citizen of the World (2015) (0)
Performative (San Francisco) (1994) (0)
“Scouting for Girls”: Reading and Recruitment in the Early Twentieth Century (2002) (0)
Preface to the 1993 edition (1998) (0)
“A Diabolical Circle for the Divell to Daunce In”: Foundational Weddings and the Problem of Civil Marriage (2002) (0)
Good Vibrations: John/Eleanor, Dame Alys, the Pardoner, and Foucault (1999) (0)
When Two Guys Hold Hands (2004) (0)
How “Arrogant Pederasts” Come into Being (2004) (0)
Three Poems (2006) (0)
“Mobility, speech, sight” (1994) (0)
Who fed this muse (1994) (0)
Oedipus Raced, or the Child Queered by Color: Birthing “Your” Parents via Intrusions (2009) (0)
The Secret Public of Physique Culture (2001) (0)
Existence Precedes Essence (2004) (0)
Queer Theories , Critiques and Beyond (2013) (0)

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