Peter Coviello
Biographic Data
| ID | 779212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Coviello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Coviello |
| SIGNATURE | COVIELLO P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Infrastructures of Escape
I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another for the second time on the night of October 9, 2025, at the legendary Music Box Theatre, on Chicago’s North Side. A few blocks up the road, in my neighborhood, word on the street all afternoon was that ICE agents—some milling about with bovine aimlessness in bulbous “tactical” gear, some lurking in unmarked vans—had been spotted around Senn High School. This wasn’t hard to credit. A few days b…
Have Joy
The encounter between the archive of Mormonism and the conceptual edifice of queer theory, if it seems in some respects improbable, can feel from other angles nearer to inevitable. It is improbable not least because of the contemporary Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ devout and, in frequent effect, purgative adherence to the notion of “family” in its very most, as the phrase goes, “traditional” iterations. One can offer counterreadin…
Make Yourselves Gods
Secularism and Viable Life
Secularism and Viable Life Peter Coviello (bio) Or think of it like this. In 1883 a man named Henry M. Teller, acting in his role of secretary of the interior—a position that gave him jurisdiction over the Bureau of Indian Affairs—authorized the implementation of a "Religious Crimes Code." The document drawn up by his commissioner of Indian affairs, Hiram Price, is, in both its compression and its strange itemized multiplicity, altogether remarka…
Plural
Research Article| October 01 2017 Plural: Mormon Polygamy and the Biopolitics of Secularism Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Peter Coviello is Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America and the co-editor of a special issue of American Literature entitled “After the Postsecular.” Search for other works by this author on: This Si…
The Wild Not Less Than the Good
What does sex radicalism look like-for queer theory but not only queer theory-in a critical dispensation tuned less to the liberatory promises of sex than to matters of biopower? This article takes up Henry David Thoreau's vexed relation to the ascetic imperatives of nineteenth-century capitalism in the context of his determination, as he says in Walden, to "love the wild not less than the good." It tracks Thoreau's interest in the wild as part o…
“Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
Introduction
the notion that something called "secularization" provides an adequate conceptual framework for the post-Enlightenment movement of bodies and belief, of thought and authority, has come under sustained and multidimensional assault.We have become, as the term goes, postsecular, to the degree we understand those assaults to have been, finally, cumulatively, fatal.It's a fairly noncontroversial position at this point, as stated by Asad way back in 20…
Call Me Morbid
Feeling Modern
Book Review| June 01 2009 Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life; Intimacies; The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 407–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Coviello; Feeling Moder…
Real Men
Book Review| June 01 2008 REAL MEN Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xvi + 316 pp. Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 439–441. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-045 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
World Enough
Book Review| June 01 2007 WORLD ENOUGH: Sex and Time in Recent Queer Studies Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence Annamarie Jagose New York: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii + 208 pp. Queer/Early/Modern Carla Freccero Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 182 pp. The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely Elizabeth Grosz Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 314 pp. Peter Coviel…
Sympathy in American Literature
Book Review| March 01 2003 Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses; A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence By Kristin Boudreau. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2002. xv, 247 pp.$55.00.By Marietta Messmer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 280 pp. $34.95. Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2…
Enemies within
Agonizing Affection
Intimate Nationality
American Literature - Volume 73, Number 1, March 2001
Introduction
the notion that something called "secularization" provides an adequate conceptual framework for the post-Enlightenment movement of bodies and belief, of thought and authority, has come under sustained and multidimensional assault.We have become, as the term goes, postsecular, to the degree we understand those assaults to have been, finally, cumulatively, fatal.It's a fairly noncontroversial position at this point, as stated by Asad way back in 20…
The Wild Not Less Than the Good
What does sex radicalism look like-for queer theory but not only queer theory-in a critical dispensation tuned less to the liberatory promises of sex than to matters of biopower? This article takes up Henry David Thoreau's vexed relation to the ascetic imperatives of nineteenth-century capitalism in the context of his determination, as he says in Walden, to "love the wild not less than the good." It tracks Thoreau's interest in the wild as part o…
Agonizing Affection
Intimate Nationality
American Literature - Volume 73, Number 1, March 2001
World Enough
Book Review| June 01 2007 WORLD ENOUGH: Sex and Time in Recent Queer Studies Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence Annamarie Jagose New York: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii + 208 pp. Queer/Early/Modern Carla Freccero Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 182 pp. The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely Elizabeth Grosz Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 314 pp. Peter Coviel…
Intimate Nationality
American Literature - Volume 73, Number 1, March 2001
Enemies within
Agonizing Affection
Sympathy in American Literature
Book Review| March 01 2003 Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses; A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence By Kristin Boudreau. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2002. xv, 247 pp.$55.00.By Marietta Messmer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 280 pp. $34.95. Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2…
World Enough
Book Review| June 01 2007 WORLD ENOUGH: Sex and Time in Recent Queer Studies Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence Annamarie Jagose New York: Cornell University Press, 2002. xviii + 208 pp. Queer/Early/Modern Carla Freccero Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. x + 182 pp. The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely Elizabeth Grosz Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. viii + 314 pp. Peter Coviel…
Real Men
Book Review| June 01 2008 REAL MEN Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema David A. Gerstner Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xvi + 316 pp. Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2008) 14 (2-3): 439–441. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2007-045 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Feeling Modern
Book Review| June 01 2009 Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life; Intimacies; The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 407–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Coviello; Feeling Moder…
Call Me Morbid
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature
The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature presents a global history of the field and is an unprecedented summation of critical knowledge on gay and lesbian literature that also addresses the impact of gay and lesbian literature on cognate fields such as comparative literature and postcolonial studies. Covering subjects from Sappho and the Greeks to queer modernism, diasporic literatures, and responses to the AIDS crisis, this volume is …
Introduction
the notion that something called "secularization" provides an adequate conceptual framework for the post-Enlightenment movement of bodies and belief, of thought and authority, has come under sustained and multidimensional assault.We have become, as the term goes, postsecular, to the degree we understand those assaults to have been, finally, cumulatively, fatal.It's a fairly noncontroversial position at this point, as stated by Asad way back in 20…
“Gimme Gimme This, Gimme Gimme That”: Listening with, to, and through José Muñoz
Plural
Research Article| October 01 2017 Plural: Mormon Polygamy and the Biopolitics of Secularism Peter Coviello Peter Coviello Peter Coviello is Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America and the co-editor of a special issue of American Literature entitled “After the Postsecular.” Search for other works by this author on: This Si…
The Wild Not Less Than the Good
What does sex radicalism look like-for queer theory but not only queer theory-in a critical dispensation tuned less to the liberatory promises of sex than to matters of biopower? This article takes up Henry David Thoreau's vexed relation to the ascetic imperatives of nineteenth-century capitalism in the context of his determination, as he says in Walden, to "love the wild not less than the good." It tracks Thoreau's interest in the wild as part o…
Make Yourselves Gods
Secularism and Viable Life
Secularism and Viable Life Peter Coviello (bio) Or think of it like this. In 1883 a man named Henry M. Teller, acting in his role of secretary of the interior—a position that gave him jurisdiction over the Bureau of Indian Affairs—authorized the implementation of a "Religious Crimes Code." The document drawn up by his commissioner of Indian affairs, Hiram Price, is, in both its compression and its strange itemized multiplicity, altogether remarka…
Have Joy
The encounter between the archive of Mormonism and the conceptual edifice of queer theory, if it seems in some respects improbable, can feel from other angles nearer to inevitable. It is improbable not least because of the contemporary Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ devout and, in frequent effect, purgative adherence to the notion of “family” in its very most, as the phrase goes, “traditional” iterations. One can offer counterreadin…
Infrastructures of Escape
I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another for the second time on the night of October 9, 2025, at the legendary Music Box Theatre, on Chicago’s North Side. A few blocks up the road, in my neighborhood, word on the street all afternoon was that ICE agents—some milling about with bovine aimlessness in bulbous “tactical” gear, some lurking in unmarked vans—had been spotted around Senn High School. This wasn’t hard to credit. A few days b…
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