W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality at the University of Michigan
About
David M. Halperin is the W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the history and theory of sexuality at the University of Michigan, where he is also professor of English language and literature and women's studies. He is the author or editor of ten books, including One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (Routledge, 1990), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993), Saint Foucault (Oxford UP, 1995), What Do Gay Men Want? (U of Michigan Press, 2007, 2009), Gay Shame (U of Chicago Press, 2009), How To Be Gay (Harvard UP, 2012), and The War on Sex (Duke UP, 2017). He also co-founded GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, which he co-edited from 1991 to 2005.
Current Work:
Dr. Halperin's current work is about queer love, about erotic love as something queerer than sex.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Queer, literature, culture, history, critique
