Karen Kopelson
Appointments
- Associate Professor
Departments
Location
- Room 335 D
- Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus
Phone Number
- 502-852-2188
Email Address
Website
Bio
Office Hours: (Fall '08) Tues/Thurs 2:30-4pm, and by appt
English Courses Recently Taught:
ENGL 371 - 75: Special Topics: Gay and Lesbian Literature (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 670 - 75: Composition Theory and Practice (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 102 - 08: Intermediate College Writing (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 491 - 01: Interpretive Theories: The New Criticism to the Present (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 310 - 75: Writing About Literature (Fall, 2006)
Educational Background
- Ph.D. from Purdue University
Teaching Areas
- Rhetoric & Composition; Critical Theory
Research Interests
- Rhetoric and writing studies, the teaching of writing, critical theory and cultural studies--especially feminisms and queer theory
Honors & Awards
- James L. Kinneavy Award (2005)
- Richard Braddock Award (2004)
Publications
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Journal Articles
“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)
“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.
"Tripping Over Our Tropes: Of 'Passing' and Postmodern Subjectivity--What's in a Metaphor?" JAC 25.3 (2005): 435-67. Recipient of the 2005 James L. Kinneavy Award.
"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 (2003): 115-46. Recipient of the 2004 Richard Braddock Award.
"Dis/Integrating the Gay/Queer Binary: 'Reconstructed Identity Politics' for a Performative Pedagogy." College English 65 (2002): 17-35.