Susan J. Brison, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College and the author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (2002), a philosophical examination of trauma incorporating a first person narrative of her experience surviving a near-fatal rape and attempted murder. She is co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation (1993) and author of numerous scholarly articles on sexual violence and on free speech as well as articles in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The Chronicle Review, and other newspapers and magazines. She has been active in the anti-rape movement since 1991.