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H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality; Professor of English Language and Literature; Professor of Women’s Studies; Professor of Classical Studies </p> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8ee6efe2feebfce7e0cefbe3e7ede6a0ebeafb" class="theme-button"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> <span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="650d04091500170c0b2510080c060d4b000110">[email protected]</span></a> <p class="label">Office Information:</p> <p class="office"> 435 S. State St.<br />Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003<br/> <span>phone: 734-647-5884<br/></span> </p> <p class="fields"> <a href="/contextsforclassics/people.gallery.html#tag=contexts-for-classics&tagns=michigan-lsa" class="themeText themeLink">Contexts for Classics</a> </p> <p class="education"> <p class="label">Education/Degree:</p> <span>B.A., Oberlin College 1973 M.A., Stanford University 1977 Ph.D., Stanford University 1980</span> </p> <div class="about hidden-xs"> <div class="headline"> <h3>About</h3> </div> <p></p><p><b>Areas of research:</b> History of Sexuality, Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies<br /> <b>Languages:</b> French, German, Italian, Russian, Classical Greek, Latin</p> <p><b>David M. Halperin</b> 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. In addition to co-founding <i>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies</i>, he is the author or editor of ten books, including <i>One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Saint Foucault, How To Do the History of Homosexuality, Gay Shame, How To Be Gay</i>, and <i>The War on Sex</i>. Among his courses are "The Culture of AIDS," "Ancient Greek/Modern Gay Sexuality," and "Bad Homosexuals."</p> <p><b>Select Publications:</b></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: medium;"> How To Be Gay (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">What Do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007; revised edition, 2009).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gay Shame</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">, edited with Valerie Traub (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">How to Do the History of Homosexuality </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">, edited with Henry Abelove and Michèle Aina Barale (New York: Routledge, 1993).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">, edited with John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and other essays on Greek Love </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(New York: Routledge, 1990).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Best Lover,” in <i>Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe</i>, ed. Basil Dufallo and Peggy McCracken (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 8-21.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Deviant Teaching,” <i>Michigan Feminist Studies</i>, 16 (2002), 1-29; reprinted, with revisions, in <i>A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies</i>, ed. George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), 146-67.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p><p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div> <div class="aem-Grid aem-Grid--12 aem-Grid--default--12 "> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4 col-xs-12"> <div class="profile-card-wrap"> <div class="profile-card"> <div> <!-- --> <div class="profile-image cq-dd-profile_image cq-dd-image" data-picture data-alt="David Halperin"> <div data-src="/content/michigan-lsa/contextsforclassics/en/people/affiliated-faculty/halperin/jcr:content/profileImage.transform/profile_portrait/image.jpg" data-media="(min-width: 1px)"></div> <noscript> <img src="/content/michigan-lsa/contextsforclassics/en/people/affiliated-faculty/halperin/jcr:content/profileImage.transform/profile_portrait/image.jpg" alt="David Halperin"/> </noscript> </div> </div> <div> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="/contextsforclassics/people/affiliated-faculty/halperin/_jcr_content/file.res/HalperinCV.pdf" target="_blank" title="CV for David Halperin " aria-label="Download CV for David Halperin " class="theme-button cq-dd-cv"> Curriculum Vitae </a> </div> <div class="social" style="margin-top: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 hidden-sm hidden-md hidden-lg"> <div class="about"> <div class="headline"> <h3>About</h3> </div> <p></p><p><b>Areas of research:</b> History of Sexuality, Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies<br /> <b>Languages:</b> French, German, Italian, Russian, Classical Greek, Latin</p> <p><b>David M. Halperin</b> 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. In addition to co-founding <i>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies</i>, he is the author or editor of ten books, including <i>One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Saint Foucault, How To Do the History of Homosexuality, Gay Shame, How To Be Gay</i>, and <i>The War on Sex</i>. Among his courses are "The Culture of AIDS," "Ancient Greek/Modern Gay Sexuality," and "Bad Homosexuals."</p> <p><b>Select Publications:</b></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: medium;"> How To Be Gay (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">What Do Gay Men Want? An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007; revised edition, 2009).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gay Shame</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">, edited with Valerie Traub (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">How to Do the History of Homosexuality </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">, edited with Henry Abelove and Michèle Aina Barale (New York: Routledge, 1993).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before Sexuality: The Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World</span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">, edited with John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and other essays on Greek Love </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(New York: Routledge, 1990).</span></li> <li><i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Best Lover,” in <i>Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe</i>, ed. Basil Dufallo and Peggy McCracken (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007), 8-21.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: medium;font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Deviant Teaching,” <i>Michigan Feminist Studies</i>, 16 (2002), 1-29; reprinted, with revisions, in <i>A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies</i>, ed. George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), 146-67.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p><p></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> <script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> var succesMsg = "<div class=\"alert alert-success\">"+ "<a href=\"#\" class=\"close\" data-dismiss=\"alert\" aria-label=\"close\">×</a>"+ "<strong>Success!</strong> a change to your profile has been requested. 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