William Fisher

william.fisher@lehman.cuny.edu
718-960-8361
Carman Hall 395

Education

B.A., Vanderbilt University
M. A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Biography

Professor Fisher is currently working on two different book-length projects: the first is a book about sexual practices in early modern English culture (with chapters on kissing, chinchucking, intercrural sex, cunnilingus, the use of dildos, and flogging), and the second is a book about "bisexuality" and notions of sexual orientation.

Selected Publications

• ’Wantoning with the Thighs’: The Socialization of Thigh Sex in England c.1600-1730,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 24:1 (2015): 1-24.
• "The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England," Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England, eds. James M. Bromley and Will Stockton (University of Minnesota Press, 2013): 141-169.
• Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press (2006).Winner of Best Book Award of 2006 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.