Steven Angelides has a BA (Hons) and a PhD in History and Gender Studies from the University of Melbourne. He has been researching and publishing in gender and sexuality studies for over 25 years and has held research fellowships at the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, and Monash University. Steven's research interests are in queer theories, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, affect theories, and science and technology studies. He is the author of two books, A History of Bisexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001) and The Fear of Child Sexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, August 2019) and for his earlier work on child sexuality published in GLQ he was awarded the American Modern Language Association's (MLA) Crompton-Noll Award.

Steven received an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant, 2015-2018, with Gary Dowsett and Duane Duncan: Muscling Up: Australian men, sexualisation and body image enhancement.

Steven is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University.

Current PhD supervisions include:
Michael McDermott, "Queerbaiting: Fandom, Industry and Teen Narrative", Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University (Principal supervisor with Andrea Waling).

Recent PhD completions:
Jacinthe Flore, "The Problem of Appetite and Balance in the History of Sexuality", Gender, Sexuality and Diversity Studies, La Trobe University (Associate supervisor with Carolyn D'Cruz).
J.R. Latham, "Trans Men's Realities: An Ontological Politics of Sex, Gender and Sexuality", Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University (Principal supervisor).
Kiran Pienaar, "The Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: An Ontological Politics of Disease", Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University (Co-supervisor with Suzanne Fraser).
Roshani Shermal Wijewardene, Courting the ‘L’ Word in India Lesbian Activism and Identity Work", Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University (Principal supervisor)