Leigh Gilmore Editor & Author

Leigh Gilmore, Visiting Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, is a feminist scholar of life writing, trauma, and law. She is the author of two books published by Cornell UP, The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Self-Representation, and the author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives, co-author of Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition, and co-editor of Autobiography and Postmodernism. She is a frequent analyst of the #MeToo movement.