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  Daniel Boyarin
Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric
Current Director, CSSC

  Daniel Boyarin is the director of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture.
  Professor Boyarin is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, an Affiliated Member of the Department of Women's Studies, a Member of core faculty in the minor in Gay and Lesbian Studies and of the graduate groups in Jewish Studies, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, and the designated emphasis in Women, Sexuality, Gender Studies.

             

   

  Michael Lucey
Founding Director

  Michael Lucey is the Chair of the Department of French. As the Founding Director and guiding light of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, he relinquished his duties in 2004 to Daniel Boyarin, but continues on the Advisory Board.

His most recent publication from Ducke University Press is Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust traces the development of a variety of complicated strategies for saying ‘I’ within literary texts dealing with same-sex sexualities.