Professor Elspeth Probyn 

BA, Grad Dip (Media), MA, PhD

• identity, sexuality and bodies
• sociology of food and taste
• food and food culture
• sexuality and gender
• cultural geography
• media studies

Books

2006 Creating Value. The Humanities and Public Engagement. (eds. E. Probyn, S. Mueke & A. Shoemaker). Canberra: Australian Academy of Humanities.

2005 Blush: Faces of Shame. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. Co-publication with UNSW Press in Australia. (Subject of Mellon State of the Art conference, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2005).

2003 Remote Control: New Media and Ethics. Catharine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn (eds.) 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.

1992 Entre le corps et le soi: pour une sociologie de la subjectivation, Elspeth Probyn (ed.), Sociologie et sociétés. l. XXIV, No. 1

1989 Women’s Voices In Media Research Elspeth Probyn (ed.). The Canadian Journal of Communication. Vol. 14, No. 3

Book Chapters

2008 ‘How do Children Taste? The battle of young tums and tongues.’, in K. Horschelman (ed.) Contested Bodies of Children and Youth. London: Palgrave.

2008 ‘Sport and Bodies, Shame and Pride’, in A. Davis and M. Silk (eds) Physical Cultural Studies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

2008 ‘Sexuality’, in T. Bennett, John Frow and Meaghan Morris (eds) The Handbook of Cultural Analysis. Boston: Blackwell (E.Probyn & G. Caluya)

2007. ‘The Politics of Experience’. In A. Gray (ed.) CCCS Working Papers vol 1. London: Routledge.

2005 ‘Habits, and the Ordering of Life’, in J. Hallows and D. Bell Ordinary Lifestyles. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

2005, 'The Body', in G. Ritzer (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2005, ‘Sex and Power: Capillaries, Capabilities and Capacities’, in C. Calhoun, C. Rojek, and B. Turner (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage.

2005 ‘Desire’ & ‘Queer’, in T. Bennett, L. Grossberg & M. Morris (eds.) New Keywords. Boston: Blackwell.

2004 “Eating for a Living: a Rhizo-ethology of bodies”, in H. Thomas (ed.) Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell.

1998 “Connections and Dis-connections: Rethinking the Body”, The Journal of Asian Women. 7th edition. pp. 1-18.

Refereed Journal Articles

2008 ‘Silences behind the mantra: Critiquing Feminist Fat’, Feminism and Psychology. 18:3.

2008 ‘Troubling Safe Choices: Girls, Friendship, Constraint and Freedom’. South Atlantic Quarterly. Vol 107, No. 2. pp. 231-249

2006 ‘Critical Attachment: At Home in the In-between’,
Criticism . Volume 48, Number 2, Spring pp. 273-279.

2004 ‘Déplacés: Honte, Corps et lieux’ Anthropologie et sociétés. Vol 28, no 3, pp 39-45. 2004, ‘Thinking with Gut Feelings’, Eating Things, Public. 30, pp 101-112.

2004 ‘Affects in/of teaching’, Body & Society 10:4 , pp.21-43

2004 ‘Everyday Shame’, Cultural Studies 18:2/3. Pp. 328-349

2004 ‘Chewing the Fat’, The Griffith Review 4. Pp.101-141

2000 “Sporting Bodies: Dynamics of Shame and Pride”, Body & Society 6:1 pp. 13-28.

2000 ‘Teaching in the Field: Gender and Media Studies’, Journal of Feminist Media Studies 1:1. Pp 35-40

2000 “The Indigestion of Identities” (feature article). M/C: A journal of media and culture, 2:7. pp 1-7

1999 “An Ethos with a Bite: Queer Appetites from Sex to Food”, Sexualities 2: 4, pp. 421-431.

1999 “Beyond Food/Sex: Eating and an Ethics of Existence”, Theory, Culture & Society 16:2. pp. 215-228.