Benjamin Kahan
Robert Penn Warren Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
225-578-3156
bkahan@lsu.edu
223-D Allen Hall
Biography
Benjamin Kahan is the Herbert Huey McElveen Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Louisiana State University. He has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and a number of other institutions. He is the author of Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life (Duke, 2013) and The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality (Chicago, 2019). His new monograph Sexual Aim and Its Misses is under contract with Chicago. He is also the editor of The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature (Cambridge, 2024), Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis” (1844): A Classic Text in the History of Sexuality (Cornell, 2016), and a co-editor of Theory Q, a book series from Duke University Press.
Area(s) of Interest
History of Sexuality, American Literature, International Modernism