English Department Faculty

Kevin Ohi

Professor

Department

English

Biography

Specializes in queer theory, aestheticism and decadence, late-Victorian prose and fiction, film, literary theory, and the history of the novel in England, Ireland and America. Professor Ohi's current projects focus on narrative perspective and desire in twentieth-century听novels and on unrequited love.

Publications

Books
  • (Fordham University Press, 2021)
  • (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
  • (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
  • (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Articles

  • 鈥淯nrequited Love,鈥 in听Love, Etc., ed. Rita Felski and Camilla Schwartz (under contract, University of Virginia 听Press).
  • 鈥淔irst Love,鈥 in听The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass, ed. Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 61-89.
  • 鈥淩evision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James鈥檚听New York Edition听Prefaces,鈥 in听After Queer Studies: Literary Theory and Critical Interpretation, ed. E.L. McCallum and Tyler Bradway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 102-21.
  • "Extreme Style: Firbank, Faulkner, and Perspectives on Modern Traditions," in Mikko Tuhkanen, ed.,Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 2014), 249-78.
  • 鈥,鈥 The Henry James Review 33:1 (Winter 2012): 1鈥16.
  • 鈥溾赌楳y Spirit鈥檚 Posthumeity鈥 and the Sleeper's Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom!,鈥 in E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, eds., , (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 2011), 205-232.
  • 鈥,鈥 The South Atlantic Quarterly 110: 3 (Summer 2011) [(鈥淒igital Desire鈥) edited by Ellis Hanson] 715-43.
  • 听鈥淔orgetting The Tempest,鈥 in Madhavi Menon, ed., 听 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 351-60.
  • 听鈥淪econd Thoughts: Queer Maud-Evelyn,鈥 in Kimberly Reed and Anna Despotopoulou, eds., (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 137-48.
  • 鈥,鈥 Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 51: 4 (Fall 2009 [published 2010]): 521-57.
  • 听鈥淗enry James.鈥 . 听Patrick O鈥橠onnell, Justus Nieland, and David Madden, eds (Blackwell Publishers, 2010 (UK)/ 2011 [US]).听
  • 听鈥淐hildren,鈥 in David McWhirter, ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 115-25.
  • 鈥,鈥欌 The Henry James Review 29:2 (Spring 2008), 118-131.
  • 鈥淭he Queer Atavisms of Hippolytus,鈥 The Pater Newsletter 58 (Spring 2008): 13-22.
  • 鈥,鈥 in Peter Rawlings, ed., Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 126-46.
  • 鈥溾赌,鈥 The Henry James Review 27:2 (Spring 2006): 140-55.
  • 鈥溾赌,鈥 ELH 72:3 (Fall 2005): 747-67.
  • 鈥,鈥 Victorian Literature and Culture 33 (2005): 435-49.
  • 鈥,鈥 Camera Obscura 58, vol. 20, no. 1 (2005): 148-83.
  • 鈥," in Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, eds., Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (U of Minnesota Press, 2004):81-106.
  • 鈥淓rotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde,鈥 Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture XXXV (Summer 2002 [published 2003]): 309-330.
  • 鈥,鈥 GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 6:2 (2000), 195-248. 听Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award.
  • 鈥溾赌,鈥 African American Review 33:2 (Summer 1999), 261-81.
  • 鈥,鈥 Cinema Journal 38: 3 (Spring 1999), 27-49.
  • [, eds., Keyframes: Popular Cinema & Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001).]
  • 鈥,鈥 Nabokov Studies 5 (1998-9),153-78. 听

Reviews

  • 鈥淩es Ipsa Loquitur.鈥 Review of Valerie Rohy, Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) in Papers on Language and Literature 52, no 1 (Winter 2016): 91-102.
  • Review of 艾可直播 Davis, Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010). Victorian Studies 55, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 693-95.
  • 鈥.鈥 Review of Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child (Durham: Duke UP, 2009) in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 17:2-3 (2011), 438-441.听
  • Review of Douglas Mao, (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008), in Victorian Studies 51:4 (2010), 762-4.

Awards

  • Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English, Williams College (Spring 2020)
  • Fellow, Cornell University Society for the Humanities, 2016-17
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2013-14
  • Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2004-5
  • Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award (2000) from the Modern Language Association (for "Molestation 101").