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Walter Penrose

Walter Penrose, PhD (City University of New York, 2006) specializes in the History of Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and South Asian contexts. His forthcoming book, Amazons, Ethnicity, and the Ideology of Courage in Ancient Greek and Asian Cultures, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Other publications include “Hidden in History: Female Homoeroticism and Women of a Third Nature in the South Asian Past,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 10:1 (2001), and “Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia,” in Queer Masculinities 1550 to 1800: Siting Same Sex Love in the Early Modern World, ed. Katherine O’Donnell and Michael O’Rourke (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Professor Penrose also has research and teaching interests in Disability Studies, the History of Ancient Religions, the Ancient Near East and Scythia, Greek and Sanskrit Literature, and World History.