'Diary: Confessions of a Plagiarist' by University of Iowa English Professor Kevin Kopelson in London Review of Books

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From London Review of Books, Vol. 30 No. 10 · 22 May 2008:

And so I too – subconsciously – must have wanted to be caught. Caught and punished, in fact: ruined career in academia, ignominious return to law. But I wasn't caught, unlike Albertine. For as far as I know, Eve's never read the thing. (But what if she has!) Never seen my name above her work. Never noticed the plagiarism. Well, she will now. As will Bob, I expect. ...I'm at some public school in the Midwest. Midwesterners, of course, are very nice. (Barthes would call this statement

I'm at some public school in the Midwest. Midwesterners, of course, are very nice. (Barthes would call this statement doxa, a bit of conventional wisdom – like the notion that students plagiarise so as to please.) And I do like my colleagues. But the students! Or rather, the English majors! Our department, you see, is the only one in the humanities not allowed to require that majors have a minimum GPA. (I imagine administrators saying: ‘They've got to major in something – and they speak English.') So for the most part, we get the very worst students: students with GPAs of 2.0 or lower. ...

Kevin Kopelson's page at University of Iowa

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