Summer Office Hours:
By appointment
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley 1999
MA, University of California, Berkeley 1994
JD, Harvard Law School 1990
BA, Yale College 1986
Areas of Specialization
Race/Class/Gender/Sexuality; Sociology of the Body; Social Problems; and Science/Medicine/Technology
Research Interests
Prof. Costello engages in research in embodied experience and interventions into embodied identity. In one line of research, he studies the regulation of sex and gender through medical interventions into the bodies of intersex and transgender people. In another, he examines embodiment in virtual settings. In a longitudinal study of avatar embodiment in the virtual world of Second Life, he studies how identification with the avatar body facilitates experiences of sensation in virtual flesh, and the therapeutic uses to which people put their avatars.
Teaching
Fall 2017
SOCIOL 102-401: Social Problems in American Society
SOCIOL 444-001: Sociology of the Body
Spring 2018
SOCIOL 102-401: Social Problems in American Society
SOCIOL 255-001: Sociology of Sexuality
Selected Publications
Costello, C. G. (2016). “Trans and Intersex Children: Forced Sex Changes, Chemical Castration, and Self-Determination. Gathman, C. (Ed.). Women’s Health: Readings on Social, Economic and Political Issues. Dubuque, IA: KendallHunt Publishing Co.
Costello, C. G. (2016). Intersex and Trans* Communities: Commonalities and Tensions. Horlacher, S. (Ed.). Transgender and Intersex in the Arts, Science and Society, 83-113. NYC: Palgrave Macmillan US.
Costello, C. G. (2014, December). “Not a “Medical Miracle”: Intersex Reproduction and the Medical Enforcement of Binary Sex and Gender”. Gibson, M. F. (Ed.). Queering Maternity and Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives on Queer Conception, Birth and Parenting. Branson, ON: Demeter Press.
Costello, C. G. (2013). Sexuality in a Virtual World. Strombler, M., Baunach, D. M., Simonds, W., Windsor, E. J., & Burgess, E. O. (Eds.). Sex Matters, 4th Ed., 178-185. New Jersey: Pearson Education.
Costello, C. G. (2011, December). The Real Me: Selfhood in the Virtual World. Batchelor, B. (Ed.). Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, V. 3, 187-203. Praeger.
Costello, C. G. (2010, December). Caster Semenya: An Intersex Perspective/ Caster Semenya: Una Perspectiva Intersex. Different Bodies/ Cuerpos Distintos, 69-72. Manthra Editores.
