Benjamin Kahan is the Herbert Huey McElveen Professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality. He is also the editor of Journal of the History of Sexuality, The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature, and a coeditor of Theory Q, a book series from Duke University Press.