Helmut Puff is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on history, literature, culture, gender, and sexuality in the late medieval and early modern periods, primarily in German-speaking Europe. His publications include Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600 (2003) and Zwischen den Disziplinen? Perspektiven der Fr hneuzeitforschung (co-edited with Christopher Wild, 2003).