Susan Brison

Susan Brison is Professor of Philosophy and Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College, where she also teaches in the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For the 2016–17 academic year, she was the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University. She has also held visiting appointments at New York University, Tufts University, and Princeton University. Brison's work has succeeded in increasing the amount of attention that philosophy, as a field, pays to issues of rape and domestic violence.

Brison has written one book, Aftermath, and co-edited a volume, Contemporary Perspectives On Constitutional Interpretation.

Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self Brison published Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self with the Princeton University Press in 2002. The book uses the personal lens of her own experience of being violently raped to examine the effects of sexual violence on identity, discussing the initial disintegration of identity that occurs with severe personal trauma and its subsequent reconstruction. While speaking of her lived experience, Brison argues that narratively understanding one's experience of rape can significantly help a survivor recover from harm.

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