Greta LaFleur is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Her research and teaching focuses on early North American literary and cultural studies, the history of race, the history of science, the history and historiography of sexuality, and queer studies. Her first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in fall 2018, and with Kyla Schuller, she is currently co-editing a special issue of American Quarterly titled “The Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas.” Her work has appeared in Early American Literature and Early American Studies, and her research has been supported by fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA), the William Andrews Clark Library at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University (Providence, RI), and the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.