Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California. She teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and fil. Professor Halberstam is the author of Female Masculinity(Duke University Press, 1998), Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and The Techonology of Monsters(Duke University Press, 1995),and In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives(New York University Press, 2005).

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