Profile Detail
Kevin Floyd
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1998.
Kevin Floyd teaches courses in literary and cultural theory, Marxism, gender studies, queer studies, and twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture. He is the author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (Minnesota 2009), and of articles that have appeared in such journals as Social Text, Science and Society, Cultural Critique, and Rethinking Marxism. He is a recent recipient of Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt grants.
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
- The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
- “Unthinking the Future: Death, Utopia, and Childhood in Edelman and Adorno,” Cultural Logic, forthcoming.
- “Lukacs and Sexual Humanism.” Rethinking Marxism 18.3 (2006): 399-405.
- "Rethinking Reification: Marcuse, Psychoanalysis, and Gay Liberation." Social Text 66 (2001): 103-28.
- "Closing the (Heterosexual) Frontier: Midnight Cowboy as National Allegory." Science and Society 65.1 (2001): 99-130.
- "Making History: Marxism, Queer Theory, and Contradiction in the Future of American Studies." Cultural Critique 40 (1998): 167-201.
Research Areas
- Samuel Delany
- Foucauldian Biopolitics
- Convergences and divergences between Marxism and queer studies, especially with reference to questions of temporality, totality, utopia
Affiliations
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Cultural Studies Association
Marxist Literary Group
OFFICE
Department of EnglishCONTACT INFO
Phone: 330-672-1753kfloyd@kent.edu
COURSES TEACHING
Spring 2013- ENG 30001 - 001 English Studies
- ENG 33003 - 001 U . S . Lit 1945 To Present
- HONR 40099 - 005 Senior Honors Thesis / Project
- ENG 78096 - 003 Individual Investigation
- ENG 89299 - 005 Dissertation Ii
- ENG 89299 - 044 Dissertation Ii
- ENG 89299 - 005 Dissertation Ii
EXPERTISE
- Marxism
- Gender Studies
- Queer Studies
- 20th C. U.S. Literature & Culture