Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as American scholar of queer theory (1950-2009).
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was born at Dayton in 1950. Her recorded nationality is United States. She studied at Yale University and Cornell University.
Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.
Her academic posts were held at City University of New York, Duke University and University of California, Berkeley.
The recorded fields of work are poetry and gender studies.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Brudner Prize (2002).
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick died in 2009, aged 59. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Brudner Prize — 2002
- Held posts at City University of New York, Duke University and University of California, Berkeley
- Fields: poetry and gender studies
