Erin G. Carlston

Erin G. Carlston is a New Zealand academic, as of 2014 a full professor of English at the University of Auckland.
Academic career.
Carlston completed her PhD at Stanford, with a thesis titled "Thinking fascism: Sapphic Modernism and fascist modernity"; the published version of the thesis was widely reviewed. Carlston worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was on the board of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and was director of the Program in Sexuality Studies. She then moved to the University of Auckland, where she is a Professor of English.
Carlston's 2013 book "Double Agents" discusses the interest that white middle-class gay writers have taken in twentieth century espionage and treason, by examining espionage scandals involving Jewish and/or gay men, and how these relate to works by Jewish and/or gay male authors. Carlston currently researches race and masculinity in Aotearoa New Zealand.