This has got to be the most ridiculously camp thing I've ever seen. So, when you get a cushy job offer from a University, sometimes they'll attempt to lure you there by letting you name your "Professorship" whatever you please. David Halperin, for instance, named his position after W. H. Auden -- the gay poet.

I've been scouring Women's Studies websites for contact e-mails in preparation for the big Beyond Masculinity email blast coming up next week. I happened upon USC's Feminist Studies faculty page, when I ran across Professor Sharon Hays' title:

Amazing! I hope to God it was an ironic choice for her!