Erika Lorraine Milam

Erika Lorraine Milam is Professor of History at Princeton University and has written extensively on evolutionary theories of sex and aggression. She is author of the forthcoming Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), and is co-editor with Robert A. Nye of Scientific Masculinities (University of Chicago Press, 2015). When she first read Frankenstein, she was ten years older than Mary Shelley had been when she wrote it.