Elspeth Probyn (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia) is Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She has taught media, cultural studies and sociology at universities in Canada and the USA, and has held several prestigious visiting appointments around the world. Her work has helped to establish several new areas of scholarship – from embodied research methods to cultural studies of food. Professor Probyn is the author of several groundbreaking monographs and over a hundred articles and chapters across the fields of gender, media, and cultural studies, philosophy, cultural geography, anthropology and critical psychology. Her current research (funded by an ARC Discovery Project) analyses the sustainability of the production and consumption of fish, results of which are published in a new book, Esting the Ocean (Duke University Press, 2016).

Research interests

Research areas include spatial theory and hybrid geographies, gender, sexuality and cultural studies, food consumption and production, theories of embodiment, social science methodologies.

Teaching and supervision

Production and consumption; bio-cultural sustainability; food cultures; gender and ‘the more-than-human’; new ethnographies & writing; theories and methodologies of embodiment...

Currently supervising:

Kate Johnson, Following Tuna: sustainability, regulations, and community

Rany Pen, Inclusive governance and development from gender perspective - Cambodia beyond 2015 Cambodian Millennium Development Goals (CMDGs)

Alifia Bandali

Tara Moss

Paul Priday

PhD and master's project opportunities

Spatial theory and hybrid geographies

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Through Space and Time: Digitally Mediated Public Intimacy	Olivia SUTHERLAND

Selected publications

Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care

(Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

Eating the Ocean

(Duke University Press, 2016)

Creating Value: The Humanities and Public Engagement

(Australian Academy of Humanities, 2006)

Blush: faces of shame

(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics

(Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Carnal appetites; foodsexidentities

(Routledge, 2000)

Outside Belongings

(Routledge, 1996)

Sexy bodies: the strange carnalities of feminism

(Routledge, 1995)

Sexing the self: gendered positions in cultural studies

(Routledge, 1993)

Publications

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Books

Probyn, E. (2016). Eating the Ocean. Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2005). Blush: faces of shame. Minneapolis, USA: University of Minnesota Press.
Probyn, E. (2000). Carnal appetites; foodsexidentities. London; New York: Routledge.
Probyn, E. (1996). Outside Belongings. New York: Routledge.
Probyn, E. (1993). Sexing the self: gendered positions in cultural studies. London; New York: Routledge.

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Edited Books

Probyn, E., Johnston, K., Lee, N. (2020). Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care. London: Rowman and Littlefield.
Probyn, E., Muecke, S., Shoemaker, A. (2006). Creating Value: The Humanities and Public Engagement. Canberra: Australian Academy of Humanities.
Lumby, C., Probyn, E. (2003). Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics. UK: Cambridge University Press.
Probyn, E., Grosz, E. (1995). Sexy bodies: the strange carnalities of feminism. London; New York: Routledge.

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Book Chapters

Probyn, E. (2022). Extracting Fish. In Not known (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, (pp. 381-400). TBC. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2022). UNCLOS as a Geopolitical Chokepoint: Locked Down, Locked In, Locked Out. In Not known (Eds.), Laws of the sea: interdisciplinary currents, (pp. 185-200). TBC. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2021). Wasting seas: oceanic time and temporalities. In Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan and Karma Eddison-Cogan (Eds.), The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time, (pp. 179-191). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2021). When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements. In S Chatterjee & B Subramaniam (Eds.), Meat! A Transnational Analysis, (pp. 17-38). Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2020). "The sea is empty" Fishers, migrants and a watery humanism. In Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, Nancy Lee (Eds.), Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, (pp. 27-41). London: Rowman and Littlefield.
Probyn, E. (2020). Emotions. In Helen F Wilson; Jonathan Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students, (pp. 67-72). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2019). Mediating Fish: Mediatization, Consumer Choice, and Media Morality. In Jorg Durrschmidt, York Kautt (Eds.), Globalized Eating Cultures: Mediation and Mediatization, (pp. 247-266). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2018). Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing. In Gitanjali G Shahani (Eds.), Food and Literature, (pp. 186-200). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2017). Queer Fish: Eating Ethnic Affect. In John Nguyet Erni (Eds.), Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic, (pp. 27-44). Berlin: Springer. [More Information]
Probyn, E., Johnston, K. (2016). Why it's so hard to 'eat local' when it comes to fish. In John Watson (Eds.), The Conversation Yearbook 2016, (pp. 145-148). Carlton: Melbourne University Press.
Probyn, E. (2015). Listening to Fish: More-Than-Human Politics of Food. In Phillip Vannini (Eds.), Non-Representational Methodologies: Re-Envisioning Research, (pp. 72-88). New York: Routledge. [More Information]
Jones, M., Bell, D., Holliday, R., Probyn, E., Sanchez Taylor, J. (2014). Facebook and Facelifts: Communities of Cosmetic Surgery Tourists. In Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton (Eds.), Travel and Transformation, (pp. 189-204). Aldershot: Ashgate. [More Information]
Caluya, G., Germon, J., Probyn, E. (2014). Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality. In M. Evans, C. Hemmings, M. Henry, H. Johnstone, S. Madhok, A. Plomien, S. Wearing (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory, (pp. 293-307). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2014). Sustaining Fish-Human Communities? A More-Than-Human Question. In Robert E. Rinehart, Karen N. Barbour & Clive C. Pope (Eds.), Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice, (pp. 155-171). Dordrecht: Springer. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2013). Afterword: Biocultural Entanglements. In Rachel Slocum, Arun Saldanha (Eds.), Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets, (pp. 331-334). Surrey, UK: Ashgate. [More Information]
Holliday, R., Hardy, K., Bell, D., Hunter, E., Jones, M., Probyn, E., Sanchez Taylor, J. (2013). Beauty and the Beach: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism. In D. Botterill, G. Pennings, and T. Mainil (Eds.), Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care, (pp. 83-97). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2013). Interlude: Entanglements: Fish, Guts, and Bio-cultural Sustainability. In Emma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis (Eds.), Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies, (pp. 289-300). Farnham: Ashgate. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2012). In the Interests of Taste and Place. In Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner (Eds.), The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time, (pp. 57-84). New York: Columbia University Press.
Probyn, E. (2012). Only connect? Communicating across the core-peripheries of geography and discipline. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 279-287). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
Probyn, E. (2011). Glass Selves: Emotions, Subjectivity, and the Research Process. In Shaun Gallagher (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Self, (pp. 681-695). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E., Caluya, G. (2008). Culture, Sex and Sexualities. In Tony Bennett, John Frow (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, (pp. 530-551). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2007). Introduction: The politics of experience. In Ann Gray, Jan Campbell, Mark Erickson, Sutart Hanson and Helen Wood (Eds.), CCCS Selected Working Papers, (pp. 425-433). London & New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Probyn, E. (2006). Creating Value. In Elspeth Probyn, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker (Eds.), Creating Value: The Humanities and their Publics, (pp. 9-14). Canberra: The Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Probyn, E. (2005). Body. In Ritzer, G (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (pp. 62-65). London: Sage Publications.
Probyn, E. (2005). Desire. In Bennett, T Grossberg, L Morris, M (Eds.), New Keywords, (pp. 76-78). Boston USA: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2005). Queer. In Bennett, T Grossberg, L Morris, M (Eds.), New Keywords, (pp. 278-279). Boston USA: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2005). Sex and Power. In Calhoun, C Rojek, C & Turner, B (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Sociology, (pp. 516-529). London: Sage Publications.
Probyn, E. (2005). Thinking Habits and the Ordering of Life. In Bell, D & Hollows, J (Eds.), Ordinary Lifestyles, (pp. 243-254). UK: Open University Press.
Probyn, E. (2004). Eating for a Living: a Rhizo-ethology of bodies. In Helen Thomas, Jamilah Ahmed (Eds.), Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory, (pp. 215-240). Malden UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2004). Shame In The Habitus. In Lisa Adkins and Beverley Skeggs (Eds.), Feminism after Bourdieu, (pp. 224-248). Malden: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2003). Eating into ethics: passion, food and journalism. In Catherine Lumby& Elspeth Probyn (Eds.), Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, (pp. 107-123). UK: Cambridge University Press.
Probyn, E., Lumby, C. (2003). Introduction: An ethics of engagement. In Catherine Lumby& Elspeth Probyn (Eds.), Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, (pp. 11-24). UK: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2003). The spatial imperative of subjectivity. In Anderson, Domosh, Pile, Thrift (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Geography, (pp. 290-299). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2001). Anxious Proximities The space-time of concepts. In Jon May and Nigel Thrift (Eds.), TimeSpace: Geographies of Temporality, (pp. 171-186). United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Probyn, E. (2001). Eating Skin. In Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey (Eds.), Thinking Through the Skin, (pp. 87-103). United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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Journals

Probyn, E. (2023). Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea. Cultural Studies, , 1-22.
Probyn, E. (2021). Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple. Cultural Studies, 35(2-3), 557-571. [More Information]
Cooper, R., Mosseri, S., Vromen, A., Baird, M., Hill, E., Probyn, E. (2021). Gender Matters: A Multilevel Analysis of Gender and Voice at Work. British Journal of Management, 32(3), 725-743. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2021). Trash fish, sand, sea snails: Why little things matter. Griffith Review, 71, 195-204. [More Information]
Probyn, E., Bozalek, V., Shefer, T., Carolissen, R. (2019). Productive faces of shame: An interview with Elspeth Probyn. Feminism and Psychology: an international journal, 29(2), 322-334. [More Information]
Bennett, T., Frow, J., Healy, C., Probyn, E. (2019). Twentieth Anniversary Colloquium: The Cultural and Communications Studies Section of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Cultural Studies Review, 25(2), 52-54. [More Information]
Hill, E., Baird, M., Vromen, A., Cooper, R., Meers, Z., Probyn, E. (2019). Young women and men: Imagined futures of work and family formation in Australia. Journal of Sociology, 55(4), 778-798. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2018). The ocean returns: Mapping a mercurial Anthropocean. Social Science Information, 57(3), 386-402. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2017). Eating/space/media. Geoforum, 84, 243-244. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2017). How to Represent a Fish? Cultural Studies Review, 23(1), 36-59. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2016). A Feminist Love Letter to Stuart Hall; or What Feminist Cultural Studies Needs to Remember. Cultural Studies Review, 22(1), 294-301. [More Information]
Holliday, R., Bell, D., Jones, M., Hardy, K., Hunter, E., Probyn, E., Sanchez Taylor, J. (2015). Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 22(1), 90-106. [More Information]
Holliday, R., Bell, D., Cheung, O., Jones, M., Probyn, E. (2015). Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism. Social Science and Medicine, 124, 298-304. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2014). The Cultural Politics of Fish and Humans: A More-Than-Human Habitus of Consumption. Cultural Politics, 10(3), 287-299. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2014). Women following fish in a more-than-human world. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 21(5), 589-603. [More Information]
Black, P., Allon, F., Driscoll, C., Probyn, E., Race, K., Redden, G. (2013). Editorial Introduction. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(3), 427-431. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2013). Sentiments oceaniques Les representations du poisson durable. POLI - Politique de l'image, 7(7), 50-59.
Caluya, G., Probyn, E., Vyas, S. (2011). 'Affective eduscapes': the case of Indian students within Australian international higher education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 41(1), 85-99. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2011). 'To market, to market..': Afterwords. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 25(5), 683-685. [More Information]
Bell, D., Holliday, R., Jones, M., Probyn, E., Taylor, J. (2011). Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism. Tourist Studies: an international journal, 11(2), 139-155. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2011). Eating Roo: Of Things That Become Food. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, 74(1), 33-45.
Probyn, E. (2011). Human-Ocean Entanglements: Human-Ocean Entanglements. Australian Humanities Review, 51(November), 97-114.
Probyn, E. (2008). Silences Behind the Mantra: Critiquing Feminist Fat. Feminism and Psychology: an international journal, 18(3), 401-404. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2004). Blushing. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 26, 81-94.
Probyn, E. (2004). Deplaces; Honte, Corps Et Lieux. Anthropologie et Societes, 28(3), 39-58.
Probyn, E. (2004). Everyday Shame. Cultural Studies, 18(2/3), 328-349. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2004). Teaching Bodies: Affects In The Classroom. Body and Society, 10(4), 21-43.
Probyn, E. (2004). Thinking With Gut Feeling. Public, 30, 101-112.
Probyn, E. (2001). Teaching in the Field: Gender and Feminist Media Studies. Feminist Media Studies, 1, 35-39.

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Edited Journals

Probyn, E., Evers, C. (2010). Researching Spaces of Intimacy, special issue of Emotion, Space and Society. Emotion, Space and Society, 3(1).
Probyn, E. (1992). Entre le corps et le soi: pour une sociologie de la subjectivation, special issue of Sociologie et societes. Sociologie et societes, XXIV (1).
Probyn, E. (1989). Womenâ€™s Voices In Media Research, special issue of The Canadian Journal of Communication. The Canadian Journal of Communication, 14(3).

Conferences

Baird, M., Cooper, R., Hill, E., Vromen, A., Probyn, E. (2018). Australian Women's Work Futures - Embedded inequalities and options for change. New social inequalities and the future of work: Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 19-20 June 2018: University of Queensland.
Cooper, R., Vromen, A., Hill, E., Baird, M., Probyn, E. (2018). Equality and Young Women's Voice at Work. 4th Biennial Fairness at Work Conference - "Justice at Work: Challenges and Possibilities", Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-11 September 2018: University of Manchester.
Cooper, R., Vromen, A., Hill, E., Baird, M., Probyn, E. (2018). The Voice and Influence Young Women at Work. Work, Employment and Society Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom, 12-14 September 2018: British Sociological Association and the Work, Employment & Society.
Cooper, R., Baird, M., Hill, E., Probyn, E. (2018). Young women and the future of work. International Industrial Relations Association ILERA World Congress, Seoul, South Korea, 23-27 July 2018: International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA).

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Report

Baird, M., Cooper, R., Hill, E., Probyn, E., Vromen, A. (2018). Women and the Future of Work. [More Information]

Research Reports

Hill, E., Cooper, R., Baird, M., Vromen, A., Probyn, E. (2018). Australian Women's Working Futures: Are We Ready?, (pp. 1 - 27). Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organization. [More Information]

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2023

Probyn, E. (2023). Aqua/geopolitical conjuncture and disjuncture: invasion, resources, and mining the deep dark sea. Cultural Studies, , 1-22.

2022

Probyn, E. (2022). Extracting Fish. In Not known (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography, (pp. 381-400). TBC. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2022). UNCLOS as a Geopolitical Chokepoint: Locked Down, Locked In, Locked Out. In Not known (Eds.), Laws of the sea: interdisciplinary currents, (pp. 185-200). TBC. [More Information]

2021

Probyn, E. (2021). Doing cultural studies in rough seas: the COVID-19 ocean multiple. Cultural Studies, 35(2-3), 557-571. [More Information]
Cooper, R., Mosseri, S., Vromen, A., Baird, M., Hill, E., Probyn, E. (2021). Gender Matters: A Multilevel Analysis of Gender and Voice at Work. British Journal of Management, 32(3), 725-743. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2021). Trash fish, sand, sea snails: Why little things matter. Griffith Review, 71, 195-204. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2021). Wasting seas: oceanic time and temporalities. In Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan and Karma Eddison-Cogan (Eds.), The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time, (pp. 179-191). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2021). When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements. In S Chatterjee & B Subramaniam (Eds.), Meat! A Transnational Analysis, (pp. 17-38). Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]

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2020

Probyn, E. (2020). "The sea is empty" Fishers, migrants and a watery humanism. In Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, Nancy Lee (Eds.), Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, (pp. 27-41). London: Rowman and Littlefield.
Probyn, E. (2020). Emotions. In Helen F Wilson; Jonathan Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students, (pp. 67-72). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E., Johnston, K., Lee, N. (2020). Sustaining Seas: Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

2019

Probyn, E. (2019). Mediating Fish: Mediatization, Consumer Choice, and Media Morality. In Jorg Durrschmidt, York Kautt (Eds.), Globalized Eating Cultures: Mediation and Mediatization, (pp. 247-266). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Probyn, E., Bozalek, V., Shefer, T., Carolissen, R. (2019). Productive faces of shame: An interview with Elspeth Probyn. Feminism and Psychology: an international journal, 29(2), 322-334. [More Information]
Bennett, T., Frow, J., Healy, C., Probyn, E. (2019). Twentieth Anniversary Colloquium: The Cultural and Communications Studies Section of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Cultural Studies Review, 25(2), 52-54. [More Information]
Hill, E., Baird, M., Vromen, A., Cooper, R., Meers, Z., Probyn, E. (2019). Young women and men: Imagined futures of work and family formation in Australia. Journal of Sociology, 55(4), 778-798. [More Information]

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2018

Baird, M., Cooper, R., Hill, E., Vromen, A., Probyn, E. (2018). Australian Women's Work Futures - Embedded inequalities and options for change. New social inequalities and the future of work: Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 19-20 June 2018: University of Queensland.
Hill, E., Cooper, R., Baird, M., Vromen, A., Probyn, E. (2018). Australian Women's Working Futures: Are We Ready?, (pp. 1 - 27). Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organization. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2018). Eating Athwart and Queering Food Writing. In Gitanjali G Shahani (Eds.), Food and Literature, (pp. 186-200). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Cooper, R., Vromen, A., Hill, E., Baird, M., Probyn, E. (2018). Equality and Young Women's Voice at Work. 4th Biennial Fairness at Work Conference - "Justice at Work: Challenges and Possibilities", Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-11 September 2018: University of Manchester.
Probyn, E. (2018). The ocean returns: Mapping a mercurial Anthropocean. Social Science Information, 57(3), 386-402. [More Information]
Cooper, R., Vromen, A., Hill, E., Baird, M., Probyn, E. (2018). The Voice and Influence Young Women at Work. Work, Employment and Society Conference, Belfast, United Kingdom, 12-14 September 2018: British Sociological Association and the Work, Employment & Society.
Baird, M., Cooper, R., Hill, E., Probyn, E., Vromen, A. (2018). Women and the Future of Work. [More Information]
Cooper, R., Baird, M., Hill, E., Probyn, E. (2018). Young women and the future of work. International Industrial Relations Association ILERA World Congress, Seoul, South Korea, 23-27 July 2018: International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA).

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2017

Probyn, E. (2017). Eating/space/media. Geoforum, 84, 243-244. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2017). How to Represent a Fish? Cultural Studies Review, 23(1), 36-59. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2017). Queer Fish: Eating Ethnic Affect. In John Nguyet Erni (Eds.), Visuality, Emotions and Minority Culture: Feeling Ethnic, (pp. 27-44). Berlin: Springer. [More Information]

2016

Probyn, E. (2016). A Feminist Love Letter to Stuart Hall; or What Feminist Cultural Studies Needs to Remember. Cultural Studies Review, 22(1), 294-301. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2016). Eating the Ocean. Durham: Duke University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E., Johnston, K. (2016). Why it's so hard to 'eat local' when it comes to fish. In John Watson (Eds.), The Conversation Yearbook 2016, (pp. 145-148). Carlton: Melbourne University Press.

2015

Holliday, R., Bell, D., Jones, M., Hardy, K., Hunter, E., Probyn, E., Sanchez Taylor, J. (2015). Beautiful face, beautiful place: relational geographies and gender in cosmetic surgery tourism websites. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 22(1), 90-106. [More Information]
Holliday, R., Bell, D., Cheung, O., Jones, M., Probyn, E. (2015). Brief encounters: Assembling cosmetic surgery tourism. Social Science and Medicine, 124, 298-304. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2015). Listening to Fish: More-Than-Human Politics of Food. In Phillip Vannini (Eds.), Non-Representational Methodologies: Re-Envisioning Research, (pp. 72-88). New York: Routledge. [More Information]

2014

Jones, M., Bell, D., Holliday, R., Probyn, E., Sanchez Taylor, J. (2014). Facebook and Facelifts: Communities of Cosmetic Surgery Tourists. In Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton (Eds.), Travel and Transformation, (pp. 189-204). Aldershot: Ashgate. [More Information]
Caluya, G., Germon, J., Probyn, E. (2014). Globalization and Feminism: Changing Taxonomies of Sex, Gender and Sexuality. In M. Evans, C. Hemmings, M. Henry, H. Johnstone, S. Madhok, A. Plomien, S. Wearing (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory, (pp. 293-307). London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2014). Sustaining Fish-Human Communities? A More-Than-Human Question. In Robert E. Rinehart, Karen N. Barbour & Clive C. Pope (Eds.), Ethnographic Worldviews: Transformations and Social Justice, (pp. 155-171). Dordrecht: Springer. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2014). The Cultural Politics of Fish and Humans: A More-Than-Human Habitus of Consumption. Cultural Politics, 10(3), 287-299. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2014). Women following fish in a more-than-human world. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 21(5), 589-603. [More Information]

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2013

Probyn, E. (2013). Afterword: Biocultural Entanglements. In Rachel Slocum, Arun Saldanha (Eds.), Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets, (pp. 331-334). Surrey, UK: Ashgate. [More Information]
Holliday, R., Hardy, K., Bell, D., Hunter, E., Jones, M., Probyn, E., Sanchez Taylor, J. (2013). Beauty and the Beach: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism. In D. Botterill, G. Pennings, and T. Mainil (Eds.), Medical Tourism and Transnational Health Care, (pp. 83-97). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
Black, P., Allon, F., Driscoll, C., Probyn, E., Race, K., Redden, G. (2013). Editorial Introduction. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(3), 427-431. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2013). Interlude: Entanglements: Fish, Guts, and Bio-cultural Sustainability. In Emma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis (Eds.), Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies, (pp. 289-300). Farnham: Ashgate. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2013). Sentiments oceaniques Les representations du poisson durable. POLI - Politique de l'image, 7(7), 50-59.

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2012

Probyn, E. (2012). In the Interests of Taste and Place. In Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner (Eds.), The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time, (pp. 57-84). New York: Columbia University Press.
Probyn, E. (2012). Only connect? Communicating across the core-peripheries of geography and discipline. In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 279-287). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.

2011

Caluya, G., Probyn, E., Vyas, S. (2011). 'Affective eduscapes': the case of Indian students within Australian international higher education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 41(1), 85-99. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2011). 'To market, to market..': Afterwords. Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 25(5), 683-685. [More Information]
Bell, D., Holliday, R., Jones, M., Probyn, E., Taylor, J. (2011). Bikinis and Bandages: An Itinerary for Cosmetic Surgery Tourism. Tourist Studies: an international journal, 11(2), 139-155. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2011). Eating Roo: Of Things That Become Food. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, 74(1), 33-45.
Probyn, E. (2011). Glass Selves: Emotions, Subjectivity, and the Research Process. In Shaun Gallagher (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Self, (pp. 681-695). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2011). Human-Ocean Entanglements: Human-Ocean Entanglements. Australian Humanities Review, 51(November), 97-114.

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2010

Probyn, E., Evers, C. (2010). Researching Spaces of Intimacy, special issue of Emotion, Space and Society. Emotion, Space and Society, 3(1).

2008

Probyn, E., Caluya, G. (2008). Culture, Sex and Sexualities. In Tony Bennett, John Frow (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, (pp. 530-551). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2008). Silences Behind the Mantra: Critiquing Feminist Fat. Feminism and Psychology: an international journal, 18(3), 401-404. [More Information]

2007

Probyn, E. (2007). Introduction: The politics of experience. In Ann Gray, Jan Campbell, Mark Erickson, Sutart Hanson and Helen Wood (Eds.), CCCS Selected Working Papers, (pp. 425-433). London & New York: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

2006

Probyn, E. (2006). Creating Value. In Elspeth Probyn, Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker (Eds.), Creating Value: The Humanities and their Publics, (pp. 9-14). Canberra: The Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Probyn, E., Muecke, S., Shoemaker, A. (2006). Creating Value: The Humanities and Public Engagement. Canberra: Australian Academy of Humanities.

2005

Probyn, E. (2005). Blush: faces of shame. Minneapolis, USA: University of Minnesota Press.
Probyn, E. (2005). Body. In Ritzer, G (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, (pp. 62-65). London: Sage Publications.
Probyn, E. (2005). Desire. In Bennett, T Grossberg, L Morris, M (Eds.), New Keywords, (pp. 76-78). Boston USA: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2005). Queer. In Bennett, T Grossberg, L Morris, M (Eds.), New Keywords, (pp. 278-279). Boston USA: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2005). Sex and Power. In Calhoun, C Rojek, C & Turner, B (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Sociology, (pp. 516-529). London: Sage Publications.
Probyn, E. (2005). Thinking Habits and the Ordering of Life. In Bell, D & Hollows, J (Eds.), Ordinary Lifestyles, (pp. 243-254). UK: Open University Press.

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2004

Probyn, E. (2004). Blushing. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 26, 81-94.
Probyn, E. (2004). Deplaces; Honte, Corps Et Lieux. Anthropologie et Societes, 28(3), 39-58.
Probyn, E. (2004). Eating for a Living: a Rhizo-ethology of bodies. In Helen Thomas, Jamilah Ahmed (Eds.), Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory, (pp. 215-240). Malden UK: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2004). Everyday Shame. Cultural Studies, 18(2/3), 328-349. [More Information]
Probyn, E. (2004). Shame In The Habitus. In Lisa Adkins and Beverley Skeggs (Eds.), Feminism after Bourdieu, (pp. 224-248). Malden: Blackwell Publishers.
Probyn, E. (2004). Teaching Bodies: Affects In The Classroom. Body and Society, 10(4), 21-43.
Probyn, E. (2004). Thinking With Gut Feeling. Public, 30, 101-112.

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2003

Probyn, E. (2003). Eating into ethics: passion, food and journalism. In Catherine Lumby& Elspeth Probyn (Eds.), Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, (pp. 107-123). UK: Cambridge University Press.
Probyn, E., Lumby, C. (2003). Introduction: An ethics of engagement. In Catherine Lumby& Elspeth Probyn (Eds.), Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, (pp. 11-24). UK: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Lumby, C., Probyn, E. (2003). Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics. UK: Cambridge University Press.
Probyn, E. (2003). The spatial imperative of subjectivity. In Anderson, Domosh, Pile, Thrift (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Geography, (pp. 290-299). London: Sage Publications. [More Information]

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2001

Probyn, E. (2001). Anxious Proximities The space-time of concepts. In Jon May and Nigel Thrift (Eds.), TimeSpace: Geographies of Temporality, (pp. 171-186). United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Probyn, E. (2001). Eating Skin. In Sara Ahmed and Jackie Stacey (Eds.), Thinking Through the Skin, (pp. 87-103). United States: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Probyn, E. (2001). Teaching in the Field: Gender and Feminist Media Studies. Feminist Media Studies, 1, 35-39.

2000

Probyn, E. (2000). Carnal appetites; foodsexidentities. London; New York: Routledge.

1996

Probyn, E. (1996). Outside Belongings. New York: Routledge.

1995

Probyn, E., Grosz, E. (1995). Sexy bodies: the strange carnalities of feminism. London; New York: Routledge.

1993

Probyn, E. (1993). Sexing the self: gendered positions in cultural studies. London; New York: Routledge.

1992

Probyn, E. (1992). Entre le corps et le soi: pour une sociologie de la subjectivation, special issue of Sociologie et societes. Sociologie et societes, XXIV (1).

1989

Probyn, E. (1989). Womenâ€™s Voices In Media Research, special issue of The Canadian Journal of Communication. The Canadian Journal of Communication, 14(3).

Selected Grants

2020

Selling the Sea: a comparative cultural analysis of urban fish markets, Probyn E, Fajardo K, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2018

Women's Working Futures Program of Research, Cooper R, Hill E, Vromen A, Baird M, Probyn E, DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI)

2017

Participatory Planning for our Food Future: The Sydney City Food Policy Project, Mann A, Probyn E, Allman-Farinelli M, Schlosberg D, Pritchard W, Jones B, DVC Research/Sydney Policy Lab
Australian Women's Work Futures (AWWF), Baird M, Cooper R, Vromen A, Probyn E, Hill E, DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI)
RES: Research Agreement with Taronga Conservation Society Australia for project: "A Holistic Model of Measuring the Impact of Taronga Conservation Programs" (Kate Johnston), Johnston K, Probyn E, McConnell A, Pepin-Neff C, Taronga Conservation Society Australia/Commissioned Research

2014

Sustainable Fish: a material analysis of cultures of consumption & production, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2013

Women and Work Research Network, Baird M, Chen M, Cooper R, Cutcher L, Foley M, Ford M, Hardy C, Hill E, McGrath-Champ S, Piper N, Probyn E, Riley J, Seymour R, Smith B, Vromen A, Williamson S, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)

2011

The Sydney Network on Climate Change and Society, McCalman I, Schlosberg D, Bashford A, Probyn E, Allon F, Giles P, Smith V, Marks P, Celermajer D, Mikler J, Chester L, Gurran N, Shrestha K, Lyster R, McManus P, Pritchard W, Neilson J, Byrne M, Wright C, de Berigny C, DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS)
Sun, Sea, Sand and Silicone: Aesthetic Surgery Tourism in the UK and Australia, Holliday R, Bell D, Jones M, Taylor J, Probyn E, UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)/Research Grant

2010

Widening Participation in the Humanities: Expanding Partnerships with Low-SES and Rural Schools to Foster Aspiration and Achievement, McDonnell M, Hardie M, Probyn E, Jagose A, Caine B, University of Sydney/Social Inclusion Unit Widening Participation Grant

2009

Taste and Place: the transglobal production and consumption of food and drink, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2008

Taste and Place: the transglobal production and consumption of food and drink, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2006

Peer Based Mentoring in Sport: Strategies for Best Practice, Albury K, Evers C, Lumby C, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)
Towards Respectful Relationships through Peer Mentoring, Anderson A, Fischl D, Probyn E, NSW Department of Education and Training (NSWDET)/Research Grants

2005

The well-rounded person: the role of sport in shaping physical, emotional and social development, Albury K, Lumby C, O'Dea J, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
The Well-Rounded Person: The Role of Sport in Shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development, Albury K, Lumby C, O'Dea J, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2004

Youth cultures of eating: a cultural analysis of youth obesity, gender, class, ethnicity and generation, O'Dea J, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
Selling Australian Feelings: Affective Tourism and the Management of Emotion, Probyn E, University of Sydney/Research & Development

2003

Fat teens: a comparative cultural analysis, Probyn E, DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Research and Development (R&D)

2000

Girl Cultures: The effects of Media on Girls and Young Womens Self Representations, Lumby C, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grants (LRG)
Practices and Performances of Alimentary Identities: A Comparative Analysis of the Food Media and their Audiences, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Large Research Grants (LRG)

1999

The making of Mod Oz: the roles of the food media in the construction of contemporary Australian identity, Probyn E, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Small Grants

Other appointments and distinctions

2011 Adjunct Research Professor, the Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia

Adjunct Professor of Cultural Geography, School of Earth & Environment, University of Western Australia.

2011 Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences

2010-2011 Director of the Hawke Research Institute, The University of South Australia

2010 Distinguished Researcher Award, The University of South Australia

2009 - Research SA Chair Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies, Director of the Hawke Research Institute, and co-Director of the Centre for Postcolonial and Globalization Studies, The University of South Australia.

2010 Resident Scholar, The Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, Italy.

2010 Distinguished Scholar, The University of South Australia.

From 2008: Board member, Food Standards Agency Australia and New Zealand.

2007 Visiting Professor, The Institute of Geography, The University of Edinburgh.

2005 Mellon Distinguished Scholar, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

From 2005: Council member, Australian Academy of Humanities

From 2005: Management Committee, Cultural Research Network (ARC funded)

From 2002: Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

From 2002: Honorary Professor, Albert Schweitzer International University, Geneva.

From 2000: Columnist, The Australian. News Corp Ltd.

2002 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, The London School of Economics, UK.

2001 ‘Noted Scholar’, The Department of English, The University of British Columbia.

2000 Research Fellow, Research Institute in Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney.

1998 Visiting Fellow, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

Keynote and plenary presentations at refereed conferences

2011 Keynote, ‘Pathways from Production to Consumption’, Food Regimes and Food Security. Australian Academy of Social Sciences Symposium, Canberra.

2011 Keynote, ‘Re-orienting the material in cultural studies’, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, University of South Australia.

2011 Keynote, ‘What’s the next local?”, Australasian Regional Food Cultures Conference, Southern Cross University.

2010 Keynote, New Methods in Ethnography, University of Waikato, New Zealand.

2010 Swimming with Tuna. 3^rd International & Interdisciplinary Conference, Adelaide.

2010 ‘Alimentary Cultural Studies: Human-fish entanglements’, EAS HDR Annual Conference, Adelaide.

2009 Keynote, Queer Diasporas. Taiwan.

2008 International Speaker. ‘Taste and Place: The global transformations of production and consumption of food and their implications for China.’ International Conference on Chinese Society and China Study’, Nanjing University, China.

2008 Plenary. ‘Emotions and Leadership’, USB Women and Leadership, Sydney.

2008 Keynote. ‘Taste and Place’, New Zealand Sociology Assocaiton Annual Conference. Otago, NZ.

2007 Inaugural. ‘Is Fat Still a Feminist Issue?’. Launch of WUN Gender Consortium, Leeds University.

2007 Inaugural. ‘Youth Cultures of Eating’. Launch of MA in Gender & Society, Goldsmiths College, The University of London.

2007 Plenary. ‘Fat Kids: rethinking obesity’, British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of East London.

2007 Keynote, Queer Space’, University of Technology, Sydney.

2007 Plenary, ‘Bodies and Urban Space’, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

2007 ‘Gender & Equality: Universality & Particularity’, Keynote. International Perspectives on Gender Equality and Social Diversity’, Sendai International Centre, Japan.

2006 ‘Feeling like a Girl’, City University, Hong Kong.

2006 Invited Speaker, Brisbane Festival of Ideas. Brisbane QLD

2005 ‘Blush’, Keynote Speaker. State of the Art Mellon Conference on Shame and other Affects. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

2004 ‘Shame Out-of-Place’, Migration, Affect and the Senses. Australian National University.

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