Professor David Halperin
W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, UTS

Dr David M. Halperin is the W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he teaches English, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature.  A classicist by training, his early publications were on Hellenistic Greek poetics and ancient Greek philosophy.  He went on to contribute to the growth of lesbian/gay studies and queer theory, founding and editing (with Carolyn Dinshaw) GLQ:  A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies from 1991 to 2005, editing The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (with Henry Abelove and Michele Aina Barale) in 1993, and publishing One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (1990), Saint Foucault (1995), and How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2002).  A new collection, edited with Valerie Traub, entitled Gay Shame , is forthcoming in 2007, as well as a short book, Sex at Risk , from which his paper at "Queer Space" is drawn.  He is currently at work on a study of male homosexuality as a cultural practice.

Professor Robert Aldrich
Professor of European History and Chair of Department of History
The University of Sydney

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Sydney . He is the author of The Seduction of the Mediterranean : Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy and Colonialism and Homosexuality . With Garry Wotherspoon, he edited a two-volume who's who in gay and lesbian history with entries on a thousand figures of importance in the history of homosexuality from Antiquity to the present; they also edited a series of volumes, Gay and Lesbian Perspectives , on Australian history. Aldrich's Gay Life and Culture: A World History - an interpretive overview written by scholars in ten countries - will be published by Thames and Hudson in September, with translations into several European languages appearing later in the year.

Professor Elspeth Probyn
Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies
The University of Sydney

Elspeth Probyn has taught media studies, sociology, and literature in Canada and the US, and is now the Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She has held several prestigious visiting appointments, including the Mellon Distinguished Scholar, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2002 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and serves on its Council. Her work focuses on questions of identity, sexuality and bodies. For over twenty years she has researched what people think and do with their bodies – from eating, sex, to emotions and writing. Elspeth has published several books in these areas including Sexing the Self (Routledge, 1993), Outside Belongings (Routledge, 1996), Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities (Routledge, 2000), Sexy Bodies co-edited with Elizabeth Grosz, Routledge, 1995). Her latest book, Blush: Faces of Shame (University of Minnesota Press, and UNSW Press, 2005) focuses on shame as a positive force in society. She is also interested in ethics, the media and popular culture, and co-edited (with Catharine Lumby) Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics (Cambridge UP, 2003).

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