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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

  • 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.
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