Leigh Gilmore is the author of The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women(Columbia, 2023), Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Columbia, 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell, 2023), and Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation (Cornell, 1994), as well as coauthor with Elizabeth Marshall of Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing (Fordham, 2019). She lives in Cambridge, MA and contributes regularly to WBUR’s Cognoscenti.




