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Profile: David Halperin

Title: W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality

Degree:
Ph.D., Stanford 1980
B.A., Oberlin College 1973

Contact Info

Office:

3124 AH

Phone:

647-5884

Uniqname:

halperin

email:

halperin@umich.edu

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Comparative Literature; Gender and Sexuality; Material Culture; Theory; Visual Culture

Research Interests

Primary Interests

The history and theory of homosexuality; classical studies and its relation to contemporary cultural history; gay men's cultural practices and subjectivity; HIV/AIDS.

Publications

How To Be Gay (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012); Gay Shame, edited with Valerie Traub (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); What Do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007; rev. ed. 2009); How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002); Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited with Henry Abelove and Michèle Aina Barale (New York: Routledge, 1993); Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World, edited with John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990); One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and other essays on Greek Love (New York: Routledge, 1990); Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).

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