Writing Shame

Kaye Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. She has published three monographs, most recently Writing Shame: Contemporary Literature, Gender and Negative Affect (2020). Her editorial publications include a collection of essays on the British author Sarah Waters (2013), a special issue of Contemporary Women's Writing (2015) on experimental women's writing, and a co-edited collection of essays (with Nonia Williams), British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (2019). Kaye is the UK editor of the journal Contemporary Women's Writing, is on the editorial board of Open Gender in Germany and C21 in the UK, and is a series editor of Bloomsbury's 'Contemporary Critical Perspectives' series.