Prosser, Jay
Title(s):
Reader in Humanities
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Institutional Affiliations: CUNY Graduate Center, University of Leeds
See Jay Prosser’s Alumni Spotlight interview.
Educational/professional/personal background prior to attending CUNY Graduate Center:
University of London, English Department. BA Degree (1st class honours) in English.
MA institution: CUNY (1994)
Dissertation topic/title: Transitional Matter (or Matters? I forget): The Body Narratives of Transsexual Autobiography (1996)
Published in the Gender and Culture series from Columbia University Press. http://www.amazon.com/Second-Skins-Jay-Prosser/dp/0231109350.
Employment history post PhD/job titles:
Reader in Humanities, School of English, University of Leeds, August 2008-
Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture, University of Leeds, September 2005-July 2008
Lecturer in American Literature, University of Leeds, September 1999-2005
Lecturer in English and American Studies, University of Leicester, January 1998-August 1999
Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, University of North London, 1996-1997
Publications:
Books:
Jay Prosser, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality, 267 pp, New York, Columbia University Press, 1998.
Jay Prosser and Laura Doan, co-editors, Palatable Poison: Critical Perspectives on The Well of Loneliness, 418 pp, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002
Jay Prosser, Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss, 230 pp, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004
Jay Prosser, editor, American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture, 250 pp, London: Routledge, 2008
Jay Prosser, editor, with Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley and Nancy K. Miller, Picturing Atrocity: Reading Photographs in Crisis, 200pp, London: Reaktion Books, 2012
