Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago
M.A., Univ. of Chicago
B.A., Haverford College
Robert J. Corber is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values, Emeritus. Before retiring in 2026, he directed the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program for many years and taught courses on the history of sexuality, queer theory, and Hollywood cinema He works at the intersection of American studies, queer studies, and film studies and is the author and editor of several books, including In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America (1993), Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (1997), and Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema (2011), all published by Duke University Press. He has edited a scholarly edition of the 1932 queer novel A Scarlet Pansy (Fordham University Press, 2016), and co-edited Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Blackwell, 2002). He has served on the editorial boards of American Literary History, American Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, and PMLA, and is an associate editor of James Baldwin Review. |
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Queer studies/theory
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Classical Hollywood cinema
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History of sexuality
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The intersection of homophobia, American national identity, and Hollywood cinema in the Cold War era
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- Corber, Robert J., ed. A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully. Fordham University Press, 2016.
- Corber, Robert J. Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema. Duke University Press, 2011.
- Corber, Robert J., and Stephen Valocchi, eds. Queer Studies: An Interdisicplinary Reader. Blackwell, 2002.
- Corber, Robert J. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity. Duke University Press, 1997.
- Corber, Robert J. In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America. Duke University Press, 1993.
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Cold War Femme. Named an Outstanding Books of the Year by Choice. Also named an Over the Rainbow Book by the American Library Association.
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Homosexuality in Cold War America. Named an Outstanding Book of the Year by Choice.
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In the Name of National Security. Named an Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights.
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Utah
- Mellon Humanities Institute Fellowship, Dartmouth College
- Whiting Dissertation Year Fellowship
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