Caleb Knapp is an interdisciplinary scholar of gender and sexuality, slavery and abolition, and 19th-century American literature and culture. He is currently working on a book that examines how antislavery discourse shaped the development of modern sexual knowledges in the United States. His work has been supported by the American Studies Association, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Mellon Foundation, and more. His essay on same-sex sexual violence under slavery, “Much-Abused Luke,” has recently been published in History of the Present. Before coming to Wesleyan, he was a Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate in the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities and the Department of History at Yale.