Kyle Stevens is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Appalachian State University. He is the author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of the two-volume collection Close-Up: Great Screen Performances (Edinburgh University Press). He has written extensively on depictions of queer subjectivity in popular culture. These essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Critical Quarterly, Film Criticism, World Picture, as well as several edited collections. He is also editor-in-chief of New Review of Film and Television Studies. He is one of the few academic members of GALECA, the largest organization for queer film and tv critics.
Website: https://english.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/kyle-stevens
Recent GWS scholarship
2019 “Elaine May: Subverting Machismo ‘Step by Tiny Step’.” The Other Hollywood Renaissance. Eds. R. Barton Palmer, Murray Pomerance, and Dominic Lennard. Edinburgh University Press. (Forthcoming.)
2018 “Michel Surreault in La cage aux folles.” Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances, Volume 2: International. Eds. Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens.
2017 “Queer Movements: Color, Performance, and Rhythm in John Huston’s Reflections in a Golden Eye.” John Huston as Adaptor. Ed. Wesley King and Douglas McFarland. SUNY Press.
2019 “Bewitched by Olivia.” LA Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/bewitched-by-olivia/
2019 “Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Marielle Heller’s Queer Art of Transparency.” Adaptation. Vol. 12, No 1. pp. 58–60.
2017 “Look at the Politics: On Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.” TheJournal of American History. Volume 104, Issue 1. p. 307–309.
2017 “Welcome to Night Vale’s Cecil Baldwin on Finding the Queerness in His Character.” Interview with podcast voice actor Cecil Baldwin. Slate.com.
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of English
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-2888