Robert J. Corber is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values.  He has taught at Trinity since 1998.  He teaches courses in queer studies/theory, classical Hollywood cinema, and the history of sexuality.  His research focuses on the intersection of homophobia, American national identity, and Hollywood cinema in the Cold War era.  He is the author of three books, 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 also edited a scholarly edition of the 1932 queer modernist novel A Scarlet Pansy (Fordham University Press, 2016), and co-edited Queer Studies:  An Interdisciplinary Reader (Blackwell, 2002).  He is currently writing a book on James Baldwin, tentatively titled, A Prodigious Rage:  Masculinity, Militancy, and Queer Identity in Late Baldwin.  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.

• 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.

• Cold War Femme.  Named an Outstanding Books of the Year by Choice.  Also named an Over the Rainbow Book by the American Library Association.
• Homosexuality in Cold War America.  Named an Outstanding Book of the Year by Choice.
• 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