Professor Elspeth Probyn

Elspeth Probyn has taught media studies, sociology, and literature in Canada and the US, and is now the Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. She has held several prestigious visiting appointments, including the Mellon Distinguished Scholar, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Honorary Professor, Albert Schweitzer International University, Geneva. In 2002 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Her work focuses on questions of identity, sexuality and bodies. She has been constantly interested in what people think and do with their bodies – from eating, sex, to emotions and writing.

Elspeth has published several books in these areas, including Sexing the Self, Outside Belongings, Carnal Appetites, Sexy Bodies. Her latest book, Blush: Faces of Shame (University of Minnesota Press, and UNSW Press, 2005) focuses on shame as a positive force in society. She is also interested in ethics, the media and popular culture, and recently co-edited (with Catharine Lumby) Remote Control, a book on media ethics, and new forms of television such as reality TV and food shows.

From her background in food, sex, bodies and the media, Elspeth has recently become interested in the panic about youth obesity, and is planning a project that examines how boys and girls, and their teachers deal with eating disorders. She is also writing Girl Cultures with Catharine Lumby on girls and media which follows from a three year project involving detailed interview material with high school girls as they talk about how they see themselves portrayed in the media.

Elspeth writes a fortnightly column in Higher Education Section of The Australian where she explores different aspects of intellectual culture.

• (2005) Blush. Faces of Shame. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, and University of New South Wales Press.
• (2003) Remote Control. New Media, New Ethics. (eds. C. Lumby and E. Probyn). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• (2000) Carnal Appetites: FoodSexIdentities. London and New York: Routledge.
• (1996) Outside Belongings. New York and London: Routledge.
• (1995) Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of Feminism. Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn (eds). London and New York: Routledge.
• (1993) Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Probyn, E. (in press). "Teaching Bodies: Affects in the Classroom" Body & Society

Probyn, E. (2004). "Everyday Shame" Cultural Studies 18.2/3. pp. 328-349

http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=0950-2386&volume=18&issue=2&spage=328

Probyn, E. (2004). "Eating for a Living: a Rhizo-ethology of bodies" In H. Thomas (ed.) Ethnographies of the Cultural Body. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell.

Probyn, E. (2003). "Eating into Ethics: Passion, Food, Journalism" In Lumby, C. and Probyn, E. (eds.) Remote Control: Changing Media, New Ethics. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Probyn, E & Lumby, C. (2003). "An Ethics of Engagement" In Lumby, C. and Probyn, E. (eds.) Remote Control: Changing Media, New Ethics. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Probyn, E. (2003). "The Spatial Imperative of Subjectivity" In Anderson, K. et al (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Cultural Geography. London: Sage.

Probyn, E. (2001). "Eating Skin" In Ahmed, S. and Stacey, J. (eds.) Thinking through Skin. London and New York: Routledge.

Probyn, E. (2000). "Anxieties of Proximity: The space-time of concepts" In May, J. and Thrift, N. (eds.) Timespace: Geographies of Temporality. London and New York: Routledge.

Articles

Probyn, E. (2004). "Chewing the Fat" The Griffith Review. 4. pp. 101-108.

Probyn, E. (2000). "Sporting Bodies: Dynamics of Shame and Pride" Body & Society 6:1 pp.13-28.

Probyn, E. (2000). "Teaching in the Field: Gender and Media Studies", In Journal of Feminist Media Studies 1:1.

Probyn, E. (2000). "The Indigestion of Identities" (feature article). M/C: A journal of media and culture, 2:7. pp 1-7 http://english.uq.edu.au/ma/9910/indigestion.html

• 2004 Managing Emotions in the Workplace, 6th Women and Leadership
  Conference, Sydney.
• 2004 Shame Out-of-Place, Migration, Affect and the Senses. Australian
  National University.
• 2003 The Prof as Small Business Woman: Entrepreneurial Thrills in the
  New University, Trans-Tasman Talks. The Stout Research Centre and the
  Insitute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, Wellington, NZ.
• 2003 The Limits of Transcultural Affect, Transculturalisms and
  Ethnicty. Rockefeller/Bellagio Center, Italy.
• 2003 The Interest of the Affective Body Culture Inc. Cultural Studies
  Association of Australian & The University of Christchurch, NZ.
• 2001 Eating for a Living: a Rhizo-ethology of Bodies, In Conversation
  University of Adelaide, Adelaide.
• 2000 Eating Disgust, The 4th European Feminist Studies Conference, The
  Universities of Utrech and Bolonga, Bologna.

• Culture, Theory & Critique (Routledge)
• Cultural Studies (Routledge)
• Feminist Media Studies (Routledge)
• Feminist Theory (Sage)
• Environment and Planning D: Society & Space (Pion)
• The Journal of European Cultural Studies (Sage Publications)
• Sexualities (Sage Publications)
• Body & Society (Sage Publications)
• Continuum: Journal of Media and Culture (Carfax)
• Cultural Studies Review (Melbourne University Publishing)
• Culture, Theory & Critique (Taylor & Francis)
• Australian Feminist Studies (Carfax)
• International Journal of Consumption Studies (Sage)
• Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Routledge)
• The Communication Review (Taylor & Francis)
• Feminist Transformations (book series, Routledge)
• Cultural Spaces (book series, The University of Toronto Press)

• GCST2601 Gender, Media and Popular Culture
• GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities and Identities