Lance Pederson (he/him/il) is a third year PhD student advised by Dr. Craig Koslofsky. Lance grew up in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he obtained his B.A. from Hamline University. Lance’s dissertation research focuses on queer masculinities in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Currently, he is working on a project which focuses on rumors, poison, and cultural perceptions of male same-sex desire as an “Italian vice” in the court of Louis XIV.