Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago (1987)
M.A., Univ. of Chicago (1981)
B.A., Haverford College (1980)
Robert J. Corber is Professor and Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program. He has taught at Trinity since 1998. He teaches courses in queer studies/theory, classical Hollywood cinema, and the history of sexuality. His research focuses on the intersection of homophobia and American national identity in Cold War culture. He is the author of two books, In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993), and Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997), both published by Duke University Press. He has also edited, with Stephen Valocchi, Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Blackwell, 2002). He has also recently published articles in American Literary History, American Quarterly, Callaloo, Camera Obscura, and GLQ, and has served on the editorial boards of American Quarterly, American Literary History, and Contemporary Literature. His new book, Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
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