Jay Prosser

Jay Prosser is Professor of Humanities at the University of Leeds. A writer and scholar of autobiography and life writing, his work explores identity and the narratives through which people make sense of their lives and the world. He has published widely, including Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (Columbia University Press, 1998), a pioneering study that continues to be widely read, and Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), an exploration of how writers use photographs. He has also collaborated with Amnesty International on Picturing Atrocity (Reaktion, 2012) and edited collections on twentieth-century American fiction and on gender and narrative. His books have been influential in the fields of life writing and cultural studies.