David Buchbinder

Born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1947, David Buchbinder was raised and schooled both in Nairobi, Kenya, and in Perth, Western Australia. He completed his undergraduate studies in English literature and French civilisation at the University of Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1969, and his postgraduate studies in English Renaissance literature at Cornell University, in the US, in 1973. Since then, he has taught in Perth, Western Australia, at Curtin University (formerly the Western Australian Institute of Technology), where he presently holds a professorial Personal Chair in Masculinities Studies.

Though he has written widely on literature, film and television, and culture, he is perhaps best known for his work on men, masculinities and male sexualities, in which field he has, in addition to many journal articles and book chapters, published three books: Masculinities and Identities (1994), Performance Anxieties: Re-producing Masculinity (1998) and Studying Men and Masculinities (2012).

He plans to retire from Curtin University at the end of 2012, but looks forward to an association with that institution, as well as a continuing programme of active research.

David has recently started a blog, which you can access at http://dbuchbin.wordpress.com/ .