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'''Elspeth Probyn''' is the Professor of [[Gender Studies]] at the [[University of Sydney]]. She lectures and publishes in fields including [[cultural studies]], [[media studies]] and [[sociology]], with a particular focus on food, sexuality and the body. She also writes a fortnightly column in the Higher Education Supplement section of national newspaper ''[[The Australian]]''. She has previously taught in Canada and the USA, and is of Welsh and Canadian background. In a recent newspaper article she expressed an interest in studying modern [[Chinese culture]] from a social science perspective, noting the lack of government funding for this kind of research and adding that "links between Australian experts on Chinese culture, society and language and Chinese social scientists should be pursued".