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Richard Dellamora
B.A. (Dartmouth) M.A. (Cambridge) M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)
Professor of English and Cultural Studies

 

Richard Dellamora is a cultural historian theorist, and literary critic whose research and teaching focus on the relationship between sexual and cultural dissidence in 19 th and 20 th century literary and other media, in England, Western Europe, the United States, and Canada.

His publications include Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism(1990), Apocalyptic Overtures: Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending (1994) and three edited collections: Postmodern Apocalypse: Theory and Cultural Practice at the End (1995), The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference (1997, co-editor with Daniel Fischlin); and Victorian Sexual Dissidence (1999). His most recent book, Friendship’s Bonds, is a study of democracy and the ethic of friendship in Victorian fiction.

Professor Dellamora currently lives in Santa Monica, California.