Building LGBTQIA+ Community on Diverse Campuses- Faculty’s Role and Responsibilities
By Shaun Travers
Ancient Sexualities for Tourists
By Andrew Lear
Four years ago, I decided to leave academia. I did not, however, abandon my interest in the topics I worked on. Instead, I took my work to the general public, founding 2 tour companies, first Oscar Wilde Tours, a company that offers tours focused on the history of same-sex love, then Shady Ladies Tours, a company that gives tours focused on women’s history, but in particular (as the name makes clear) courtesans.
Undoing the need to translate: Public Debates about LGBTQ histories in the Classics classroom
By Marguerite Johnson
In Australia, the USA, and the UK, there is a debate in the Humanities and Social Sciences over the teaching of the western canon versus the teaching of identity politics. This paper examines the debate in Australia, particularly in response to the report by Bella d'Abrera, entitled The Rise of Identity Politics: An Audit of History Teaching at Australian Universities in 2017. The report was commissioned by the conservative thinktank, the Institute of Public Affairs, where d'Abrera is Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Program.
LGBTQ Pedagogy and Classics: Finding a Happy Medium when Discussing Ancient Homoeroticism in the Classroom
By Walter Penrose
In a course that I taught recently, the students and I were discussing the relationship between masculine women and female homoeroticism when a student abruptly interjected. He asked “What about a conservative perspective that sees homosexuality as wrong, and equates it with pedophilia and bestiality?” This was not the first, nor the last comment that this student made that led to disruption in the classroom. Although I normally allow students to discuss varying points of view, I decided to address this one myself.
LGBTQ Parenting and the Profession
By Kristina Milnor
This paper uses my own experiences becoming a parent to explore some of the challenges to both having and raising children as a lesbian and academic classicist. It begins with a description of my personal history: I completed my PhD in 1998 at the age of 28 and moved directly into a tenure track job at Barnard College, where I was granted tenure in 2006. My first book also was published that year. I became pregnant in 2009 as the result of IUI (a type of assisted reproduction in which a doctor introduces sperm directly into the uterus) with frozen sperm from an anonymous donor.