This piercing bouquet: An interview with eve kosofsky sedgwick

The following conversation between Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Stephen M. Barber, and David L. Clark took place in Sedgwick’s apartment in Greenwich Village on the afternoon of January 8, 2000. Q: We would like to begin with your experiences in university as a graduate student and with your early teaching. Your doctoral dissertation was published in 1980 as your first book, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions. In your preface to that book, …