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Department of English
Bingham Humanities 315
2211 South Brook
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 852-6801

Karen Kopelson

Assistant Professor

Rhetoric & Composition; Critical Theory

Ph.D. from Purdue University

Contact Information:

Office:	HUM 335D
Phone:	(502) 852-2188
Email:	karen.kopelson@louisville.edu

Office Hours for Spring 2008:

MW 3:30-5:30 pm, and by appt.

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 491 - 01: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Fall, 2003)

ENGL 506 - 01: Teaching of Writing - WR (Fall, 2003)

ENGL 310 - 02: Writing About Literature - WR (Spring, 2003)

ENGL 506 - 01: Teaching of Writing - WR (Spring, 2003)

ENGL 691 - 75: Contemporary Theories of Interpretation (Fall, 2004)

ENGL 310 - 05: Writing About Literature - WR (Spring, 2004)

ENGL 310 - 07: Writing About Literature - WR (Fall, 2005)

ENGL 371 - 75: Special Topics in English and American Language and Literature (Fall, 2005)

ENGL 310 - 04: Writing About Literature - WR (Spring, 2005)

ENGL 506 - 01: Teaching of Writing - WR (Spring, 2005)

ENGL 310 - 75: Writing About Literature - WR (Fall, 2006)

ENGL 491 - 75: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Fall, 2006)

ENGL 670 - 75: Composition Theory and Practice (Spring, 2006)

ENGL 102 - 31: Intermediate College Writing - WC (Spring, 2006)

ENGL 102 - 08: Intermediate College Writing - WC (Fall, 2007)

ENGL 491 - 01: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Fall, 2007)

ENGL 491 - 75: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Spring, 2007)

ENGL 371 - 02: Special Topics in English and American Language and Literature (Spring, 2007)

ENGL 491 - 01: Interpretive Theory: The New Criticism to the Present (Fall, 2008)

ENGL 310 - 04: Writing About Literature - WR (Fall, 2008)

ENGL 371 - 75: Special Topics in English and American Language and Literature (Spring, 2008)

ENGL 670 - 75: Composition Theory and Practice (Spring, 2008)

ENGL 692 - : Topics in Interpretive Theory since 1900 (Fall, 2009)

ENGL 690 - 01: Dissertation Research (Fall, 2009)

ENGL 689 - 01: Directed Reading for Comprehensive Preliminary Examinations (Fall, 2009)

ENGL 615 - 01: Thesis Guidance (Fall, 2009)

ENGL 690 - 01: Dissertation Research (Spring, 2010)

ENGL 368 - 01: Minority Tradition in English Literatures - CD2 (Spring, 2010)

ENGL 615 - 01: Thesis Guidance (Spring, 2010)

ENGL 689 - 01: Directed Reading for Comprehensive Preliminary Examinations (Spring, 2010)

Current Research & Teaching Interests:

rhetoric and writing studies, the teaching of writing, critical theory and cultural studies--especially feminisms and queer theory

Recent Publications:

?Radical Indulgence: Excess, Addiction, and Female Desire.? Postmodern Culture 17.1.

"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.

?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.

"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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