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Karen Kopelson

Appointments

  • Associate Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies

Departments

Location

  • Room 315 D
  • Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
  • Office Hours: Weds 2:30-4pm; Thurs 3:30-5pm; and by appt.

Phone Number

  • 502-852-0505

Email Address

Website

Bio

Office Hours Spring 2012: Weds 2:30-4pm; Thurs 3:30-5pm; and by appt.

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 670-75  Composition Theory and Practice (Spring, 2012)

ENGL 491-01  Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Fall, 2011)

ENGL 691-01: Contemporary Theories of Interpretation (Spring, 2011)

ENGL 506-75: Teaching Writing (Fall, 2010)
ENGL 368-01: Minority Traditions in Literature--"Dangerous Crossings" (Spring, 2010)
ENGL 692-01: Queer Theory (Fall, 2009)


Educational Background

  • Ph.D. from Purdue University

Teaching Areas

  • Rhetoric & Composition; Critical Theory; Gay and Lesbian Lit

Research Interests

  • Rhetoric and writing studies; critical theory and cultural studies (especially feminisms and queer theory); questions of disciplinarity; medical rhetoric.

Honors & Awards

  • James L. Kinneavy Award (2005)
  • Richard Braddock Award (2004)

Publications

  • Journal articles

    “Writing Patients’ Wrongs: The Rhetoric and Reality of Information Age Medicine.” JAC 29.1-2 (2009): 353-404.  

    “Back at the Bar of Utility: Theory and/as Practice in Composition Studies (Reprise).” JAC 28.3-4 (2008): 587-608.  

     “Sloganeering Our Way to Serenity: AA and the Language(s) of America.” JAC 27.3-4 (2007): 591-636. 

    “Sp(l)itting Images; Or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition.” College Composition and Communication 59.4 (2008): 750-80.  

    “Radical Indulgence: Excess, Addiction, and Female Desire.” Postmodern Culture 17.1 (September 2006). 

    “Tripping Over Our Tropes: Of ‘Passing’ and Postmodern Subjectivity—What’s in a Metaphor?” JAC 25.3 (2005): 435-67. (2005 James L. Kinneavy Award recipient)  

    “Rhetoric on the Edge of Cunning; Or, the Performance of Neutrality (Re)Considered As a Composition Pedagogy for Student Resistance.” College Composition and Communication 55.1 (September 2003): 115-46. (2004 Braddock Award recipient)  

     “(Dis)Integrating the Gay/Queer Binary: ‘Reconstructed Identity Politics’ for a Performative Pedagogy.” College English 65.1 (September 2002, Special Issue, Gay/Lesbian Studies: Queer Pedagogies. Guest Editor, William J. Spurlin): 17-35.

     

  • Book Chapters

    “Of Ambiguity and Erasure: The Perils of Performative Pedagogy.” Relations, Locations, and Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. Ed. Peter Vandenberg, Jennifer Clary-Lemon, and Sue Hum. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2006. 563-71.

     

  • Book Reviews

    Review of David L. Wallace and Helen Rothschild Ewald’s Mutuality in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom.

    Composition Studies 29.2 (Fall 2001): 133-39.

     

  • Works in Preparation

    “Queer.” Keywords in Writing Studies. Ed. Paul Heilker and Peter Vandenberg. Logan: Utah State UP, 2013. 

     “Recruiting the ‘Bad Girls of Breast Cancer’: The Risky Rhetoric of Breast Cancer Action and Breast Cancer Fund.”

     
 
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