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David M. Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American
United States

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 theorist
Theory

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 in the fields of gender studies
Gender studies

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, queer theory
Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of gender studies that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of Gay and lesbian studies and feminist studies. Heavily influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, queer theory builds both upon feminist challenges to the idea that gender is part of the Essentialism self and upon gay/lesbian studies' close examinat...
, critical theory
Critical theory

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, material culture and visual culture. Openly
Coming out

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 gay
Gay

The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid-20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree," "happy," or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637....
, he is the cofounder of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

GLQ: The Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies is an academic journal based published by Duke University Press. It was co-founded by David M. Halperin and Carolyn Dinshaw....
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David M. Halperin (born April 2, 1952) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 theorist
Theory

For a more detailed account of theories as expressed in formal language as they are studied in mathematical logic see Theory A theory, in the general sense of the word, is an analytic structure designed to explain a set of observations....
 in the fields of gender studies
Gender studies

Gender studies is a Field of study of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. Gender Studies is sometimes related to studies of Social class, Race , ethnicity, sexuality and Location ....
, queer theory
Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of gender studies that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of Gay and lesbian studies and feminist studies. Heavily influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, queer theory builds both upon feminist challenges to the idea that gender is part of the Essentialism self and upon gay/lesbian studies' close examinat...
, critical theory
Critical theory

In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is the examination and critique of society and literature, drawing from knowledge across social sciences and humanities disciplines....
, material culture and visual culture. Openly
Coming out

Coming out, or commonly "coming out of the closet," describes the usually voluntary public revealing of a person's sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
 gay
Gay

The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid-20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree," "happy," or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637....
, he is the cofounder of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

GLQ: The Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies is an academic journal based published by Duke University Press. It was co-founded by David M. Halperin and Carolyn Dinshaw....
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Biography

Halperin graduated from Oberlin College
Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1833 by Presbyterian ministers, and is home to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, making it the only top-ranked Liberal arts colleges in the United States with a top-ranked conservatory....
 and went on to receive his PhD in Classics
Classics

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 from Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 in 1980. He used the method of genealogy to study the history of homosexuality
Homosexuality

Homosexuality refers to human sexual behavior or same-sex attraction between people of the same sex or to homosexual orientation. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "having sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to members of one?s own sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social identi...
. He is currently W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan is a public university research university located in the state of Michigan. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes two regional campuses in University of Michigan-Flint and University of Michigan-Dearborn....
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Publications

  • Before Pastoral: Theocritus and the Ancient Tradition of Bucolic Poetry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983)
  • 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)
  • The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, edited with Henry Abelove and Michele Aina Barale (New York: Routledge, 1993)
  • Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
  • How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
  • What Do Gay Men Want? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007)


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