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told graduates "Our dark strivings will at times be obscurely motivated and incomprehensible to our loved ones. Even the good and beautiful things that we do will leave behind regrets. But as we leave ... I think we need to take the risk of hoping and believing that after such tragic storms there will be a rainbow and that rainbow will reflect the vast diversity of experiences that wait in store for us."
138:. On January 26, 2020, Tobin received the key to the city of Worcester in recognition of his collaboration with Joseph F. Cullon and Stephanie E. Yuhl on the Worcester Historical Museum exhibit. It was the first of its kind to celebrate the long history of LGBTQ+ people in Worcester. The exhibit findings are collected in a book with the same name as the exhibit Tobin authored with his collaborators.
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position, Tobin hosted a lecture series on queer studies, which featured internationally renowned scholars in the fields of
European literary, cultural, and sexuality studies. Loved by students and colleagues alike, in recognition of his contribution to the intellectual community at his university, in 2019 Clark awarded him the Steinbacker Award. He was a member of the
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Tobin’s scholarship on queer German studies ranged from literature to psychoanalysis, and from culture studies to the history of medicine. He published extensively on the writings of Johann
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Whitman, he actively contributed to the German Studies program and various initiatives related to sexuality studies. While there, he was named the Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities. In 2008, he gave Whitman College’s commencement address. An eternal optimist, he
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Foreign Languages and Cultures at Clark University. His courses focused on German literature, sexuality studies, and human rights. In his
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Eurovision song contest as a place where Europeans negotiated the boundaries of tolerance. In recent years, he took up the theme of illiberalism, the alt right, and male-male desire.
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