Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick,
a prominent theorist who is often cited as one of the founders
of queer theory, died on April 12. She was 58.
Sedgwick was reportedly
diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991, prompting her book
A Dialogue on Love
. Sedgwick taught English at several institutions including
Boston University; the University of
California, Berkeley; and Duke University, where she
was a Newman Ivey White Professor of English.
According to friend
Cathy Davidson, who wrote about Sedgwick's death on Monday,
she died by her partner Hal's side.
"Eve was a
practicing Buddhist and blessings were said in Tibetan Buddhist
ceremonies all over the world to help with her passage to the
next life, a passage that, I know, brings the loving
connections she made to the next life,"
Davidson wrote
. "She leaves those connections behind, to those of us
fortunate to have known her or been touched by her writings. We
love you, Eve."
Sedgwick has written
many books on gender and sexual orientation, including
Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire;
Epistemology of the Closet;
and
Tendencies.
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