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3006 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Haggerty, George

Professor of English

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

English


Biography

Degrees

Ph.D. English 1979

University of California, Berkeley

M.A. English 1973

University of California, Berkeley

A.B. English 1971

College of the Holy Cross

Awards

Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, 1983-1984
Distinguished Teaching Award, UCR, 1986-1987
Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, UCR, 1992-1993; 1995-1996
Resident Fellow, Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), UC Irvine, Fall 1998
UC President's Research Fellowship, 1999-2000


Research Area

George E. Haggerty is a scholar working at the intersection of eighteenth-century and gay studies. While attempting to examine literary and cultural production of this period of transition. Haggerty offers a unique perspective on the history of sexuality and the ways in which literary forms reflect ideological change. His publications, Unnatiral Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century (Indiana, 1998) and Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality (Columbia, 1999) especially, demonstrate the ways in which literary and other cultural forms both participate in and themselves enact the changes that gave rise to the modern notions of sexuality and sexual identity. At present, his work on a longer study of the life and work of Horace Walpole will add to this project by looking at the most misunderstood figures of the 18th century. Most importantly he hopes to reimagine the role that a Foucualdian understanding of cultural history can play in a consideration of eighteenth-century friendship. Walpole offers the most compelling case for the in-depth consideration of a single figure, both because of the enormous range and variety of his interests and because he was himself conscious of the kinds of relationships that his correspondence would construct. Walpole is not merely a minor writer of considerable interst. Rather a close study of Walpole's epistolary production can reveal the age and its most cherished prerogatives in such vivid outline that nothing less than a profound cultural reassessment will be possible.

Publications

Books include: Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form. (Penn State Press, 1989)
Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century (Indiana, 1998)Men in Love; Masculinity and Sexuality in the 18th Century (Columbia, 1999)Queer Gothic (Illinois 2006)He co-edited Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (MLA 1995), The Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (Blackwell 2007)and was general editor of Taylor and Francis's The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures (2000). He 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. At present he is working on a book project entitled "My dear Child": Masculinity and Friendship in the Letters of Horace Walpole.