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Abelove, Henry


Professor of English
English Department
860.685.3633
English Department 218

Professor, American Studies
American Studies Program
860.685.3633
English Department 218

Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English
English Department
860.685.3633
English Department 218


AB Harvard University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
MAA Wesleyan University
EMAIL:
habelove@wesleyan.edu
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
 English Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
ENGL116 - 01
ENGL206 - 01
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Henry Abelove is is the author of The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists, and of Deep Gossip; and he is co-editor of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, and of Visions of History. He is presently at work on two new projects. One is a book on George Berkeley and colonialism. It is tentatively titled A Cure for Empire. A first installment will soon appear in Raritan. The second is a book on the cultural expressions of gay liberation in its formative years. This is tentatively titled The Poetics of Gay Liberation.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Eighteenth-century anglophone literature, history, religion, and philosophy; history of sexuality; modern American gay/lesbian/queer literature and history
ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:
Modern Language Association; American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
AWARDS WON:
Lambda Prize; Binswanger Prize for Outstanding Teaching; Michael Lynch Service Award; Stanley Kelly, Jr. Visting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching (Princeton University); Distinguished Visiting Professorship (University of Alberta)
OFFICE HOURS:
Fall 2009: Wednesdays, 1:45-3:45 PM
GRANTS:
Fellowship, Harvard Center for European Studies; Fellowship, University of Utah Humanities Center; Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in the Institute for Advanced Study