Professor David Buchbinder holds a Personal Chair in Masculinities Studies in the Faculty of Media, Society & Culture, Division of Humanities, at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, where he teaches in the areas of liter
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Professor David Buchbinder holds a Personal Chair in Masculinities Studies in the Faculty of Media, Society & Culture, Division of Humanities, at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, where he teaches in the areas of literary and cultural studies. He has published widely in journals and magazines, examining and exploring, among others, theory and poetry, semiotics, novels and opera. His chief work, however, has been in the area of masculinities studies, where, focusing on the cultural representations, across various genres and media, of men, masculinities and male sexualities, he has published two books, Masculinities and Identities (1994) and Performance Anxieties: Re-presenting Men (1998), as well as numerous articles in this field. He has edited a collection of undergraduate essays on masculinity (Essays in Masculinities Studies 2002; and has begun work on a third book on masculinity, provisionally titled Malestrom: Masculinity at the Abyss. He is currently the tertiary sector representative on the State committee overseeing change in the secondary Literature curriculum.
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