Kathryn A. Hoffmann is Associate Professor of French at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Her publications include Society of Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power during the Reign of Louis XIV (1997). She is the recipient of an Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione French Prize (MLA), and the author of articles and translations on early modem literature, history, philosophy, and the history of medicine and sexuality.