The Queer Age of Sail

Seth Stein LeJacq is a historian specializing in the history of medicine, gender, and sexuality. His current research focuses on the queer age of sail. He is the editor of the historical source collection Sexual and Gender Difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900, which will be pubished later this year. He is also completing work on a queer history of the British Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He teaches courses in history, literature, the medical humanities, and academic writing.