George E. Haggerty, Professor
Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley

(951) 827-1940
george.haggerty@ucr.edu

George E. Haggerty (A.B. Holy Cross; Ph.D. Berkeley), specializes in 18th-Century English Literature and Gay Studies. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (Penn State, 1989); Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century (Indiana, 1998); Men in Love; Masculinity and Sexuality in the 18th Century (for Columbia, 1999); and Queer Gothic (Illinois, 2006). In addition, he co-edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature for the Modern Language Association (1995), and The Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (Blackwell, 2006). He was general editor of Taylor and Francis's The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures (2000); and he has also edited a collection of essays by his longtime partner, the musicologist, Philip Brett: Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays of Philip Brett (California, 2006).  He has published a wide range of essays in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, Genders , and SEL and in various collections and anthologies. In 1987, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award.  At present he is working on a book project entitled Horace Walpole’s Correspondents: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Masculinity.