J. Brooks Bouson is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA. She has published nine books, including
Embodied Shame: Uncovering Female Shame in Contemporary Women’s Writings;
Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison;
Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother; and
Brutal Choreographies: Oppositional Strategies and Narrative Design in the Novels of Margaret Atwood.