Greta LaFleur

Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2018. LaFleur is currently working on a new monograph, tentatively titled A Queer History of...See more

Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of science, the history of race, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer & trans studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2018. LaFleur is currently working on a new monograph, tentatively titled A Queer History of Sexual Violence (under contract with The University of Chicago Press). LaFleur's writing appears in Early American Literature, Early American Studies, American Quarterly, American Literature, and on the Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books websites See less