Emory LGBT Scholars and Researchers (list is under construction, if you wish to be added please email lgbt@emory.edu)

The following is a list of faculty and researchers who are out, teach lgbt courses and/or do lgbt research.

For a list of faculty associated with the Studies in Sexuality program, click here.

Emory College/The Graduate School
Jonathan Goldberg (jonathan.goldberg@emory.edu) is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Director of Studies in Sexualities, a program that is part of the Race and Difference Initiative. His publications include books on sexuality in early modernity (including “Sodometries” and “Desiring Women Writing”) and in the twentieth century (including “Willa Cather and Others” and “Tempest in the Caribbean”). He teaches the Introduction to Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies in Women's Studies as well as English courses in early modern and twentieth century literature, including a course on Patricia Highsmith and Willa Cather as lesbian writers.

Lynne Huffer (lhuffer@emory.edu) is a Professor and Chair of Women's Studies. She received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Michigan in 1989, and taught at Yale University and Rice University before coming to Emory in 2005. Her fields of study include feminist theory; queer theory; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies; modern French and francophone literature; literary theory; and ethics. She is the author of “Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory”; “Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia and the Question of Difference”; “Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing”, and numerous articles on feminist theory, queer theory, and French literature. She is also the editor of a special issue of Yale French Studies: Another Look, Another Woman: Retranslations of French Feminisms. Her current book project explores the problem of ethics in feminist and queer theories, with a particular focus on the work of Michel Foucault.  She teaches courses in queer theory, feminist theory, LGBT studies, and Foucault.

Jose Quiroga (jquirog@emory.edu) is a Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Richard Rambuss (rrambus@emory.edu) is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature. He specializes in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. He is particularly interested in Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, the metaphysical poets, Renaissance devotional literature, and the baroque. He also works in gender and sexuality studies, contemporary cultural studies, and film. Rambuss is the author of "Closet Devotions", which treats the relations between religious devotional literature and various forms of eroticism. He is currently at work on new book about masculinity in the films and photography of Stanley Kubrick. His undergraduate courses include: "Arms and the Man" (freshman seminar);"Literature and Culture"; "Technocultures"; Shakespeare in Love"; and "Cultural Practices, Cultural Politics: The AIDS Crisis." His graduate seminars include "Shakespeare: Scenes of Instruction and Seduction"; "Lyric and Ecstasy: Donne, Crashaw, Milton"; "Gender Studies in Theory," and "Making Love: Seventeenth-Century Amorous Poetry".

Rollins School of Public Health
Rob Stephenson (rbsteph@emory.edu) is an Assistant Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health. He teaches Maternal and Child Health Demography; Migration and Health; and Monitoring and Evaluation of Global Health Programs. His research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, with a focus on sexual behavior, domestic violence and the role of the community in shaping health.

Colin Talley (cltalle@sph.emory.edu) is a medical historian who specializes in the history of public health, medicine, and disease in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current teaching and research interests focus on the history of public health, the history of behavioral sciences, and LGBTQ Public Health. His book, “A History of Multiple Sclerosis”, was published in May 2008. His articles on the history of multiple sclerosis, the history of smoking and health, and the history of sexuality have appeared in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Journal of the History of Neurosciences, Journal of the History of Sexuality and in Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda. He has taught courses in the history of public health, LGBTQ public health, the history of medicine, behavioral sciences in public health, United States history, world history, and Western civilization.