Leigh Gilmore
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
Publications
87
Citations
1,759
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
35
Publishing since 1991
Leigh Gilmore studies autobiography and life writing, focusing on how personal narratives about trauma, gender, and justice are told and believed. Recent work examines the #MeToo movement, memoir, and testimony, looking at how storytelling intersects with law, credibility, and public accountability. This research draws on literary studies, gender studies, and cultural history to analyze how personal accounts shape and are shaped by social and legal systems.
Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a notable spike in 2017 and 2023 and lower activity in intervening years, averaging about 3.4 publications per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Credibility lessons: gender, justice, and believability in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall
Gender and Justice · 2025
- The Subject of Autobiography, University of Southern Maine, 1989: How a Conference Demonstrated Critical Mass
a/b Auto/Biography Studies · 2025
- Unprecedented, Extrajudicial, Carceral: The Political Grammar of #MeToo
a/b Auto/Biography Studies · 2025
- To Tell a Different Story: Narrative, Nation, History
American Literary History · 2025
- Giving an Epistolary Account of Oneself: Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy
differences · 2024
- The #MeToo Effect
Columbia University Press eBooks · 2023
- The Limits of Autobiography
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- The limits of autobiography trauma and testimony, with a new preface
2023
- Represent Yourself
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- Introduction: The Limits of Autobiography
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- Desperation, Revenge, and Memoir: The Year in the US
Biography · 2023
- There Will Always Be a Mother
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- The Knowing Subject and an Alternative Jurisprudence of Trauma
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- Without Names
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- There Will Always Be a Father
Cornell University Press eBooks · 2023
- Columbia University Press eBooks×15
- Cornell University Press eBooks×13
- Biography×8
- a/b Auto/Biography Studies×6
- Fordham University Press eBooks×4
- Julia Watson
Arts and Humanities · The Ohio State University
- Shari Salisbury
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Eric Mayer-García
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Guisela Latorre
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Solimar Otero
Social Sciences · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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