David M. Halperin is the W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of English, Comp Lit, Women's Studies, and Classical Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Honorary Professor in the School of Sociology at The University of New South Wales in Sydney. His most recent book is How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2002); Gay Shame, edited with Valerie Traub, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.