Henry D. Abelove

Henry D. Abelove
Education	Harvard University Wesleyan University Yale University
Occupation(s)	Academic, literary scholar

Henry D. Abelove is an American academic and literary scholar. He was a Professor of English at Wesleyan University until 2011, and he was the inaugural F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University in 2012.

Early life

Abelove graduated from Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree. He earned a master of arts degree from Wesleyan University, followed by an MPhil and a PhD from Yale University.

Career

Abelove was the Willbur Fisk Osborne Professor of English at Wesleyan University until 2011. He was the inaugural F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University in 2012.

Abelove is the author of several books, and a co-editor of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993).

Personal life

Abelove is gay.

Selected works

• Abelove, Henry (1990). The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804718264. OCLC 878593907.
• Abelove, Henry; Thompson, E. P. (1993). Visions of History. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780394530468. OCLC 9557481.
• Abelove, Henry; Barale, Michèle Aina; Halperin, David M., eds. (1993). The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415905190. OCLC 27430224.
• Abelove, Henry (2003). Deep Gossip. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816638277. OCLC 58454073.