University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) University of Minnesota (M.A., Ph.D)
Occupation(s)
Professor, author
Employer
Columbia University
Known for
Queer philosophy
Jack Halberstam (/ˈhælbərstæm/; born December 15, 1961), also known as Judith Halberstam, is an American academic and author, best known for his book Female Masculinity (1998). His work focuses largely on feminism and queer and transgender identities in popular culture. Since 2017, Halberstam has been a professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Previously, he worked as both director and professor at The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California (USC).[1] Halberstam was the associate professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego before working at USC.
Halberstam lectures in the United States and internationally on queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film and animation. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book on fascism and (homo)sexuality.[2]
In Halberstam's most popular piece, Female Masculinity, he attacks the protected status of male masculinity, treating it not as foundational, but the least interesting of a wide number of variants. In addition, he points out the ways in which female masculinities have been pathologized. In the first full length study of its kind, Halberstam traces the presence of female masculinities throughout history, offering it as a viable and ancient option. The text argues for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories, using examples such as “the bathroom problem” to point out every-day ways in which nonbinary people are excluded. The book was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Studies in 1998 and awarded the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction in 1999.
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JackHalberstam (/ˈhælbərstæm/; born December 15, 1961), also known as Judith Halberstam, is an American academic and author, best known for his book Female...
The Queer Art of Failure is a 2011 book of queer theory by JackHalberstam. In it, Halberstam argues that failure can be a productive way of critiquing...
increased sixfold because of pogroms and antisemitic laws elsewhere. JackHalberstam provides a list of Dracula's associations with antisemitic conceptions...
scripts was published by Homofactus Press titled Two Truths and a Lie. JackHalberstam wrote the foreword. The book was a finalist for the Lambda Literary...
the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022. "Judith JackHalberstam. 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham and London: Duke University...
independent heterosexual couplings with two children. Gender scholar JackHalberstam argues that while the defying of gender roles is often tolerated in...
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Mbembe, Donna Haraway, Lauren Berlant, Arturo Escobar, Walter Mignolo, JackHalberstam, Sara Ahmed, Jane Bennett, Patricia Hill Collins, Jennifer Christine...
film's sequels had cameo appearances of characters revealed as fembots. JackHalberstam writes that these gynoids inform the viewer that femaleness does not...
whereas transgender masculine self-identification does not. Similarly, JackHalberstam has contextualised stone butch identities as one of many distinct female...
social contradiction, since sex and gender are 'supposed' to match." JackHalberstam, director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality...
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object of voyeurism among the public according to the queer theorist JackHalberstam. Within weeks of the online publication, news of his story quickly...
A number of well-known scholars have drawn on her work, including JackHalberstam, Heather Love, Sara Ahmed, Jonathan Alexander, and Deborah Gould. In...
genderqueer activism and theorization. JackHalberstam is another key figure in transgender studies. Halberstam's work deals with female masculinity, the...
by Mark Gatiss, was based on Barker. In Female Masculinity (1998), JackHalberstam writes that Barker represented "the beginning of the emergence of a...
discussion of race, nationality, and sexuality. Theorist and author JackHalberstam argued that the viewer's placement in Fergus's point of view regarding...
example, JackHalberstam argues that transgender men cannot be considered butch, since it constitutes a conflation of maleness with butchness. Halberstam further...
on the subject, with participants Robert L. Caserio, Lee Edelman, JackHalberstam, José Esteban Muñoz and Tim Dean debating the utility of the critique...
construction due to social expectations of masculinity. According to JackHalberstam (under the name Judith), people correlate masculinity with "maleness...
well as "Billy Brenson" and "Teena Ray." The Brandon Teena Archive, JackHalberstam "Nebraska Inmate Details: John Lotter". Nebraska Department of Correction...
positions: east asia cultures critique. Since 2001, Lowe has co-edited with JackHalberstam, "Perverse Modernities," a book series for Duke University Press. She...
that such artists face in the genre. In his book Female Masculinity, JackHalberstam writes that "widespread indifference to female masculinity...has clearly...
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