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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 – April 12, 2009) was an American academic scholar in the fields of gender studies, queer theory (queer studies), and critical theory. Her critical writings helped create the field of queer studies. Her works reflect an interest in a range of issues, including queer performativity; experimental critical writing; the works of Marcel Proust; non-Lacanian psychoanalysis; artists' books; Buddhism and pedagogy; the affective theories of Silvan Tomkins and Melanie Klein; and material culture, especially textiles and texture. Drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of Michel Foucault, Sedgwick uncovered what she claimed were concealed homoerotic subplots in writers like Charles Dickens and Henry James. Sedgwick argued that an understanding of virtually any aspect of modern Western culture would be incomplete or damaged if it failed to incorporate a critical analysis of modern homo/heterosexual definition. She coined the terms "homosocial" and "antihomophobic." Noted works include ''How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay'', ''Queer Performativity: Henry James's The Art of the Novel'', and ''Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl'', which was heavily criticised for the "scandalous" interpretation it took.〔Halford, Macy. ("Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick" ), The New Yorker, April 13, 2009, accessed 3/11/10〕〔Grimes, William. "(Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Pioneer of Gay Studies and a Literary Theorist, Dies at 58 )", The New York Times, April 15, 2009, accessed 3/11/10〕 ==Biography== Eve Kosofsky was raised in a Jewish family in Dayton, Ohio and Bethesda, MD. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her Ph.D from Yale University. She taught writing and literature at Hamilton College, Boston University, and Amherst College. She held a visiting lectureship at University of California, Berkeley and taught at the School of Criticism and Theory when it was located at Dartmouth College. She was also the Newman Ivey White Professor of English at Duke University, and then a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.〔 Mark Kerr; Kristin O'Rourke, ("Sedgwick Sense and Sensibility: An Interview with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick" (interview conducted January 19, 1995) ), ''Thresholds: Viewing Culture'' – University of California Santa Barbara, Volume 9, 1995 (Interviews Section), University of California, Santa Barbara (publisher) (University of California, Irvine -publication held on UCI's website). Accessed April 30, 2009. 〕 During her time at Duke, Sedgwick and her colleagues were in the academic avant-garde of the culture wars, using literary criticism to question dominant discourses of sexuality, race, gender, and the boundaries of literary criticism. Sedgwick first presented her particular collection of critical tools and interests in the influential volumes ''Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire'' (1985) and ''Epistemology of the Closet'' (1990). The latter work became one of gay and lesbian studies' and queer theory's founding texts. She received the 2002 Brudner Prize at Yale. She taught graduate courses in English as Distinguished Professor at The City University of New York Graduate Center (CUNY Graduate Center) in New York City, until her death in New York City〔 From staff and wire reports, ("Obituaries" ), ''The Washington Post'', April 21, 2009. Accessed April 30, 2009.〕 from breast cancer on April 12, 2009, aged 58.〔 Michell Garcia, ("Educator, Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Dies at 58" ), ''The Advocate'', April 13, 2009. Accessed April 30, 2009.〕 〔(Mort de l'intellectuelle Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ) (in French language), Têtu, April 13, 2009. Accessed April 30, 2009.〕 〔Richard Kim, (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950–2009 ), ''The Nation, April 13, 2009. Accessed April 30, 2009. Obituary in ''The Nation Online''〕 Eve Kosofsky married Hal Sedgwick in 1969; he survives her.〔 Macy Halford, ("Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick" ), ''The New Yorker'', April 13, 2009. Accessed April 30, 2009. 〕 Commentators often pointed out the juxtaposition between Sedgwick's transgressive and often radical writing on sexuality with the fact that she was married to a man for decades. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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