Lee Edelman

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Lee Edelman is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Edelman has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 7 papers in Philosophy and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Lee Edelman's work include Poetry Analysis and Criticism (6 papers), Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 papers) and Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 papers). Lee Edelman is often cited by papers focused on Poetry Analysis and Criticism (6 papers), Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 papers) and Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 papers). Lee Edelman collaborates with scholars based in United States. Lee Edelman's co-authors include Lauren Berlant, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Judith Halberstam, Christopher Nealon, Annamarie Jagose, Carla Freccero, Roderick A. Ferguson, Elizabeth Freeman, Carolyn Dinshaw and Elizabeth Bishop and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, American Literature and GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

In The Last Decade

Lee Edelman

27 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

2004 1.2k citations Lee Edelman profile →
No Future

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee Edelman United States	11	1.2k	694	579	490	453	39	2.7k
Judith Halberstam United States	20	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	403 0.7×	766 1.6×	549 1.2×	41	3.1k
Ann Cvetkovich United States	13	1.0k 0.9×	385 0.6×	333 0.6×	334 0.7×	424 0.9×	33	2.2k
David M. Halperin United States	21	1.2k 1.0×	821 1.2×	271 0.5×	661 1.3×	193 0.4×	41	2.7k
Leo Bersani United States	20	793 0.7×	425 0.6×	566 1.0×	378 0.8×	198 0.4×	61	2.1k
Teresa de Lauretis United States	21	1.5k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	942 1.6×	368 0.8×	390 0.9×	83	4.1k
José Esteban Muñoz United States	14	1.1k 0.9×	663 1.0×	232 0.4×	477 1.0×	602 1.3×	44	2.4k
Audre Lorde Jordan	13	1.7k 1.4×	763 1.1×	316 0.5×	454 0.9×	333 0.7×	38	3.2k
Gloria Anzaldúa Bangladesh	17	2.0k 1.7×	701 1.0×	369 0.6×	383 0.8×	766 1.7×	36	3.6k
Anne McClintock United States	13	1.7k 1.4×	568 0.8×	485 0.8×	129 0.3×	373 0.8×	23	2.8k
Thomas Laqueur United States	22	1.1k 0.9×	541 0.8×	345 0.6×	195 0.4×	137 0.3×	56	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Edelman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lee Edelman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lee Edelman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lee Edelman. Lee Edelman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Edelman, Lee. (2022). Bad Education.

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Edelman, Lee. (2022). Bad Education. 1 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2020). No Future. 6 indexed citations

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Thomas, Calvin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, et al.. (2019). Adventures in theory : a compact anthology. Bloomsbury Academic eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee & Joseph Litvak. (2019). TWO MUCH. GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 25(2). 297–314. 1 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2017). Learning Nothing:Bad Education. differences. 28(1). 124–173. 10 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2016). An Ethics of Desubjectivation?. differences. 27(3). 106–118. 2 indexed citations

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Berlant, Lauren & Lee Edelman. (2013). Sex, or the Unbearable. 73 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2013). The Mirror and the Tank: "AIDS," Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Activism. 115–140. 1 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2011). Against Survival: Queerness in a Time That's Out of Joint. Shakespeare Quarterly. 62(2). 148–169. 28 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2010). Unnamed: Eve’s <i>Epistemology</i>. Criticism. 52(2). 185–190.

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Dinshaw, Carolyn, Lee Edelman, Roderick A. Ferguson, et al.. (2007). THEORIZING QUEER TEMPORALITIES. GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 13(2-3). 177–195. 193 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2006). Antagonism, Negativity, and the Subject of Queer Theory. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 121(3). 821–823. 21 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2006). The Student of Metaphor. differences. 17(3). 195–204. 1 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (2004). No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. 1214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Edelman, Lee. (1995). Queer Theory: Unstating Desire. GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 2(4). 343–346. 29 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (1994). Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 203 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee. (1989). The Plague of Discourse: Politics, Literary Theory, and AIDS. South Atlantic Quarterly. 88(1). 301–317. 2 indexed citations

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Dickie, Margaret & Lee Edelman. (1988). Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire.. American Literature. 60(3). 507–507. 10 indexed citations

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Edelman, Lee & Elizabeth Bishop. (1985). The Geography of Gender: Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room". Contemporary Literature. 26(2). 179–179. 13 indexed citations

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