Erin G. Carlston is a New Zealand academic, as of 2014 a full professor of English at the

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Academic career

Carlston completed her

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, with a thesis titled ''Thinking fascism: Sapphic Modernism and fascist modernity''; the published version of the thesis was widely reviewed. Carlston worked at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

, where she was on the board of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and was director of the Program in Sexuality Studies. She then moved to the

, 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. Carlston currently researches race and masculinity in

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New Zealand.

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.

References

Living people 1962 births University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty New Zealand women academics Stanford University alumni Academic staff of the University of Auckland New Zealand expatriates in the United States Harvard College alumni New Zealand women writers {{NewZealand-academic-bio-stub