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Benjamin Kahan is the Herbert Huey McElveen Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Louisiana State University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of sexuality, American literature, and international modernism. Kahan has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Humanities Center fellowship, among others.
His publications include monographs such as Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts (2019), with an upcoming monograph Sexual Aim and Its Misses (2024). He edits The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (2024) and co-edits the Theory Q book series with Duke University Press. Kahan also translated Heinrich Kaan’s Psychopathia Sexualis (2016).
His academic service includes editorial roles at Cornell and Duke University Press, reflecting his commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of literature, sexuality, and modernist studies.
