Career
In 1977,Halperin served as Associate Director of the Summer Session of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome. [2] From 1981 to 1996,he served as Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] [2] Alongside Tina Passman,Halperin was one of the first co-chairs of the Lesbian and Gay Classical Caucus,now Lambda Classical Caucus,which was founded in 1989. [4] In 1994,he taught at the University of Queensland,and in 1995 at Monash University. [2] From 1996 to 1999,he was a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New South Wales. [1] He is currently W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of the History and Theory of Sexuality,Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature,and Professor Emeritus of Women's and Gender Studies.
In 1991,he co-founded the academic journal GLQ:A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies ,and served as its editor until 2006. [1] [5] His work has been published in the Journal of Bisexuality , Identities:Journal for Politics,Gender and Culture , Journal of Homosexuality , Michigan Feminist Studies , Michigan Quarterly Review , Representations ,the Bryn Mawr Classical Review , Ex Aequo , UNSW Tharunka , Australian Humanities Review , Sydney Star Observer , The UTS Review , Salmagundi , Blueboy , History and Theory , Diacritics , American Journal of Philology , Classical Antiquity , Ancient Philosophy , Yale Review , Critical Inquiry , Virginia Quarterly Review , American Notes &Queries , London Review of Books , Journal of Japanese Studies , Partisan Review ,and Classical Journal . [2]
He has been a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina,as well as a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center,the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra,and at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. [1] In 2008–2009,he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [1] He received the Michael Lynch Service Award from the Gay and Lesbian Caucus at the Modern Language Association,as well as the Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. [1] In 2011–2012,he received the Brudner Prize at Yale University. [6]
Halperin is openly gay. [7] In 1990,he launched a campaign to oppose the presence of the ROTC on the MIT campus,on the grounds that it discriminated against gay and lesbian students. [8] That same year,he received death threats for his gay activism. [9] [10] In 2003,the Michigan chapter of the American Family Association tried to ban his course 'How to Be Gay:Male Homosexuality and Initiation.' [11] [12] In 2010,he wrote an open letter to Michigan's 52nd Attorney General Mike Cox to denounce the homophobic harassment by one of the latter's staffers,Andrew Shirvell,of a University of Michigan student,Chris Armstrong. [13]
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