<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3aa83f39-1e92-4083-8c65-3febee01db1f/6D9F2075-5FB1-4DC9-A497-A3DCE42C333D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp" href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mediabistro.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mediabistro.com/img/3E775FD2-5ECE-494D-8284-697BE3A941AE" alt="GalleyCat" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp"><H2 id="a113923"> Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Has Died</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp"><P><IMG height="150" align="left" width="200" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/original/6a00e3981f1206883301156f213553970c-pi.jpg" alt="6a00e3981f1206883301156f213553970c-pi.jpg" />The ground-breaking literary theorist <STRONG><A href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Eve-Kosofsky-Sedgwick-profile.html">Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick</A></STRONG> has died. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp"><P>Her book "Epistemology of the Closet" helped lay the foundation for queer theory, followed by a number of other titles, including "Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction," and "Touching, Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/authors/_eve_kosofsky_sedgwick_has_died_113923.asp"><P>Duke University Press celebrated the author's <A href="http://dukeupress.typepad.com/dukeupresslog/2009/04/eve-kosofsky-sedgwick-19502009.html">literary legacy</A>: "More than just a Duke author, Sedgwick helped to define the Press as we went through major editorial changes in the 1990s. 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