[csaa-forum] Sad news: Elspeth Probyn, Professor Emeritus, Gender and Cultural Studies

[Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli]

Very sad news!

I send love, hugs and wishes we keep Elspeth's legacy in our own future dayz

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From: Rob Cover <robcover at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2025 6:10 AM
To: csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au <csaa-forum at lists.cdu.edu.au>
Subject: Sad news: Elspeth Probyn, Professor Emeritus, Gender and Cultural Studies

Dear cultural studies colleagues,

The below is posted on behalf of Dr Shawna Tang (Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney), as the CSAA and the wider international cultural studies community mourns the heartbreaking loss this week of Professor Elspeth Probyn, a key foundational scholar in our fields and a much-loved colleague and friend to many.  We will miss her enormously but, with gratitude, we acknowledge her critical insights and generosity have shaped Australian cultural studies and will never be forgotten.

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We are mourning the loss of Emeritus Professor Elspeth Probyn who passed away in the early hours of 8 April. Her passing leaves a deep ache in our hearts.



Elspeth shaped Gender and Cultural Studies in Australia and internationally with a fierce intellect and a generosity of spirit — all with a kind of party discipline. She was always present at faculty seminars and postgrad presentations, often the first to ask an intellectually generous question or express her appreciation. She exemplified, par excellence, what it means to take academic practice seriously. Whether it was a draft article, a grant application, a promotion document, or even an abstract, she could always be relied upon to offer the most incisive and helpful feedback — the kind that didn’t leave you in despair, but made the path forward feel possible, even easy.



Elspeth’s contribution to the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, and the wider world of cultural studies, gender and queer studies internationally was profound. She took an intense, critical and engaged interest in the work of others, especially the nascent ideas of early careers and postgraduates. Scholarly conversations with her often continued outside of formal sessions, unfolding in post-conference social activities where she tirelessly fostered intellectual exchange that blurred the lines between academic labour and pleasure. For Elspeth, cultural studies is ordinary practice - a means of creating connections and a sense of belonging.



Generations of scholars have been touched by her critical brilliance and her unwavering care.



Vale, Elspeth — lodestar to generations of scholars in gender and cultural studies, and far beyond. We are all bereft.



   -- Dr Shawna Tang, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at The University of Sydney<https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/schools/school-of-humanities/gender-and-cultural-studies.html>.

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Rob's books:
Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives? - http://bit.ly/qys2012

Vulnerability and Exposure: Footballer Scandals, Masculine Identity and Ethics - http://bit.ly/VulnExp

Digital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self - http://bit.ly/DigIdentities

Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era - http://bit.ly/Em-Id

Flirting in the Era of #MeToo: Negotiating Intimacy (with A Bartlett and K Clarke) - http://bit.ly/flirting-book

Population, Mobility and Belonging: Population Concepts in Media, Culture and Society - http://bit.ly/populmb

Fake News in Digital Cultures (with A Haw and J Thompson) - https://bit.ly/fake-news-digital

Identity and Digital Communication: Concepts, Theories, Practices - https://bit.ly/Id-Dig-Com

Identity in the COVID-19 Years: Communication, Crisis and Ethics - https://bit.ly/COV-id-23b

Queer Memory and Storytelling: Gender and Sexually-Diverse Identities and Trans-Media Narrative (with R Prosser) - https://bit.ly/QueerMem24

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