Special issue of Criticism on Eve Sedgwick
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
After the “primum mobile of queer theory,” Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, passed away in April 2009, there has been several events honoring her important work. Boston University arranged a series of roundtable discussions last year entitled “Honoring Eve” with scholars such as Lee Edelman, Cindy Patton, Michel Moon and others. The event was recorded and parts of it made public on YouTube, and it all is now published as a special issue of Criticism, edited by Erin Murphy and J.Keith Vincent.
The table of contents looks quite amazing, including contributions by an impressive crowd of researchers – among others Eve Sedgwick’s partner H.A. Sedgwick. It looks like this:
H. A. SEDGWICK: Opening Remarks for Honoring Eve Symposium
CAROLYN WILLIAMS: The Boston Years: Eve’s Humor and Her Anger
LEE EDELMAN: Unnamed: Eve’s Epistemology
SIOBHAN B. SOMERVILLE: Feminism, Queer Theory, and the Racial Closet
ED COHEN: The Courage of Curiosity, or the Heart of Truth (A Mash-up)
MICHAEL MOON: Psychosomatic? Mental and Physical Pain in Eve Sedgwick’s Writing
CINDY PATTON: Love without the Obligation to Love
JONATHAN FLATLEY: “Unlike Eve Sedgwick”
HEATHER LOVE: Truth and Consequences: On Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading
TAVIA NYONG’O: Trapped in the Closet with Eve
JOSEPH LITVAK: Sedgwick’s Nerve
BILL GOLDSTEIN: Some Scenes in Proust
KATHERINE HAWKINS: Re-creating Eve: Sedgwick’s Art and the Practice of Renewal
JONATHAN GOLDBERG: On the Eve of the Future
ID 450 COLLECTIVE: Writing the Plural: Sexual Fantasies
RENÉE C. HOOGLAND on Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory by Lynne Huffer
BRIAN GLAVEY on Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays by Leo Bersani
DREW DANIEL on Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz
KATHRYN R. KENT on The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century by Kathryn Bond Stockton
HENRY ABELOVE on The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot Canaday
JOHN ANDREWS on The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Kevin Floyd
FIONA BRIDEOAKE on Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History by Heather Love
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If you find purchasing the issue too difficult or expensive, and don’t have a library with online access nearby, some of the papers can be seen delivered on YouTube. Here are some of them:
Honoring Eve: Feminism and Queer Theory:
Honoring Eve: Writing and Illness:
