Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1950, Dayton, Ohio, United States — 2009, New York City, United States
United States
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was an American literary critic and theorist, a founding figure of queer studies whose books Between Men and Epistemology of the Closet reshaped how scholars read sexuality, gender and literature. She was of documented Jewish origin. Her concepts of homosociality and reparative reading remain widely influential in the humanities.
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Literary & drama critic
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