Erin G. Carlston
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Erin G. Carlston is a New Zealand academic, as of 2014 a full professor of English at the University of Auckland.{{cite web|url=http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/people/profile/e-carlston|title=Professor Erin Carlston - The University of Auckland|website=www.arts.auckland.ac.nz}}
Academic career
Carlston completed her PhD at Stanford, with a thesis titled Thinking fascism: Sapphic Modernism and fascist modernity; the published version of the thesis was widely reviewed.{{Cite journal|last=Kibble|first=Matthew|date=2000|title=REVIEWS: Women Intellectuals and Intellectual Fascism|journal=Women: A Cultural Review|volume=11|issue=1–2|pages=161–164|doi=10.1080/09574040050051541|issn=0957-4042}}{{Cite journal|last=Martin|first=Elaine|date=1999|title=Review of Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity|journal=The Comparatist|volume=23|pages=197–198|issn=0195-7678|jstor=44367044}}{{Cite journal|last=Frost|first=Laura|date=1998|title=Review of Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity|journal=Modern Fiction Studies|volume=44|issue=4|pages=1069–1071|issn=0026-7724|jstor=26285356}} Carlston worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was on the board of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and was director of the Program in Sexuality Studies.{{Cite book|url=http://cup.columbia.edu/book/double-agents/9780231136723|title=Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens|last=Carlston|first=Erin G.|date=2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231510097}} She then moved to the University of Auckland, where she is a Professor of English.
Carlston's 2013 book Double Agents discusses the interest that white middle-class gay writers have taken in twentieth century espionage and treason, by examining espionage scandals involving Jewish and/or gay men, and how these relate to works by Jewish and/or gay male authors.{{Cite web|url=https://criticalmargins.com/interview-with-erin-carlston-author-of-double-agents-2f2619b01480|title=Interview with Erin Carlston, Author of Double Agents|last=Eagen|first=Kevin|date=6 November 2013|website=Critical Margins|access-date=3 June 2019}} Carlston currently researches race and masculinity in Aotearoa New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=https://modernismmodernity.org/users/erin-g-carlston|title=Erin G. Carlston {{!}} Modernism/Modernity|access-date=3 June 2019}}
Selected works
- Carlston, Erin G.. Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens. Columbia University Press, 2013.
- Carlston, Erin G. "Secret dossiers: Sexuality, race, and treason in Proust and the Dreyfus Affair." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 48(4) (2002): 937–968.
- Carlston, Erin G. Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity. Stanford University Press, 1998.
- Carlston, Erin G. "‘A Finer Differentiation’: Female Homosexuality and the American Medical Community, 1926–1940." Science and Homosexualities (1997): 177–96.
- Carlston, Erin G. "Versatile Interests: Reading Bisexuality in The Friendly Young Ladies." RePresenting Bisexualities: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire (1996): 165–79.
- Carlston, Erin G. "Zami and the politics of plural identity." Sexual practice, textual theory: Lesbian cultural criticism (1993): 226–36.
- Irigaray, Luce, and Erin G. Carlston. "The language of man." Cultural Critique 13 (1989): 191–202.
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Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Category:New Zealand women academics
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