Stambolian, George

George Stambolian, writer, editor and college professor, was best known as the editor of the Men on Men anthologies of gay fiction. Stambolian was born in 1938, the son of Armenian immigrants. He graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1969. From 1966 until his retirement in 1991, Stambolian was a professor in the Department of French at Wellesley College. He taught courses in French literature, and wrote and edited three academic works: Marcel Proust and the Creative Encounter (1972); Twentieth Century French Fiction: Essays for Germaine Brée (1975); and, with Elaine Marks, Homosexualities and French Literature (1979).

As an early proponent of gay literature and gay studies, Stambolian also taught such interdisciplinary courses as "The Art and Politics of the Nude" and "New Literatures: Lesbian and Gay Fiction in America."

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