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.

Leigh Gilmore's The Limits of Autobiography is a fine addition to the body of excellent recent work in trauma studies, and is highly recommended for all working in the mental health disciplines.... The writing is extremely fine throughout, and the book is a rich cornucopia of literary and psychological analyses, theoretical sophistication, and interdisciplinary connectedness; these treasures can only be suggested here.

• Introduction - the limits of autobiography; represent yourself; bastard testimony - incest and illegitimacy in Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina"; there will always be a father - transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's "Shot in the Heart"; there will always be a mother - serial autobiography and Jamaica Kincaid; without names - an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body"; conclusion - the knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma.

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.

Leigh Gilmore's The Limits of Autobiography is a fine addition to the body of excellent recent work in trauma studies, and is highly recommended for all working in the mental health disciplines.... The writing is extremely fine throughout, and the book is a rich cornucopia of literary and psychological analyses, theoretical sophistication, and interdisciplinary connectedness; these treasures can only be suggested here.

• Introduction - the limits of autobiography; represent yourself; bastard testimony - incest and illegitimacy in Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina"; there will always be a father - transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's "Shot in the Heart"; there will always be a mother - serial autobiography and Jamaica Kincaid; without names - an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body"; conclusion - the knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma.

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.

Leigh Gilmore's The Limits of Autobiography is a fine addition to the body of excellent recent work in trauma studies, and is highly recommended for all working in the mental health disciplines.... The writing is extremely fine throughout, and the book is a rich cornucopia of literary and psychological analyses, theoretical sophistication, and interdisciplinary connectedness; these treasures can only be suggested here.

• Introduction - the limits of autobiography; represent yourself; bastard testimony - incest and illegitimacy in Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina"; there will always be a father - transference and the auto/biographical demand in Mikal Gilmore's "Shot in the Heart"; there will always be a mother - serial autobiography and Jamaica Kincaid; without names - an anatomy of absence in Jeanette Winterson's "Written on the Body"; conclusion - the knowing subject and an alternative jurisprudence of trauma.