2005 AWP Conference
Feb. 24-27, 2005
Tampa, Florida

Banquet Speaker:

Dr. Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity, Duke University Press

 

Judith M. Halberstam Department of Literature 0410 University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0410 Phone: (858) 534-8699; fax: 858-534-8686 email: jhalberstam@ucsd.edu http://www.egomego.com/judith/home.htm

Judith Halberstam is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at UC San Diego. Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film. Halberstam is the author of Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995) she co-edited Posthuman Bodies (Indiana UP, 1995) with Ira Livingston and she co-authored The Drag King Book (serpent's Tail, 1999) with Del LaGrace Volcano. Halberstam just finished a book called Transmodernity: Postmodern Space and Queer Embodiment. Halberstam is currently working on a book about queer subcultures called "What's That Smell?" and finishing a book about the Brandon Teena case titled "The Brandon Archive." She is author of the book "Female masculinity", the first full lenght study on this subject, offering a distinctive alternative to male masculinity. "As Halberstam demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders." About "Female masculinity", Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1998. Halberstam has become one of the best known gender theorist in our times.

Selected Publications:

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Posthuman Bodies (edited with Ira Livingston). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

The Drag King Book (with Del LaGrace Volcano). London: Serpent's Tail Press, 1999.

"Oh Behave: Austin powers and the Drag Kings," Forthcoming, GLQ (Summer 2001).

"Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton and Transgender Biography," a/b "Special Issue on Queer Auto/Biographies," ed. Thomas Spear (Summer 2000).

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Men, Women and Masculinity," Feminist Studies and Masculinity, ed. Judith K. Gardiner. Forthcoming, New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

"Thugs, Geezers and Kings: Post-Imperial Masculinities," New Queer Studies, ed. Jael Lehman. Forthcoming.