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W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality Professor of English, Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and Classical Studies
3187 Angell Hall 435 S. State St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
Office Location(s): 3187 Angell Hall Office Hours: None this term Phone: 734.647.5884 halperin@umich.edu Personal Homepage View Curriculum Vitae
David M. Halperin is a classicist by training; his early publications were on Hellenistic Greek poetics and ancient Greek philosophy. He currently works in the history of sexuality, lesbian and gay studies, and feminist and queer theory, and he has played a role in the institutionalization of queer studies within the academy. He is the author or editor of eight books, including One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Saint Foucault, How To Do the History of Homosexuality, and Gay Shame. Among his courses is the notorious "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation," which examines gay male sexuality and identity from the perspective not of sex but of social practices and cultural identifications, and is the topic of his forthcoming book of the same title.
