Affective Gaslighting and Rape Culture: Compounding the Violence of Sexual Assault

Recently retired from Vanderbilt University, where she was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. She is the author of 16 scholarly books, including Response Ethics (Rowman & Littlefield), Carceral Humanitarianism (Minnesota University Press), Earth and World, Philosophy after the Apollo Missions (Columbia University Press), and Animal Lessons, How They Teach Us to Be Human (Columbia University Presss); the editor of another 13 books, including her most recent co-edited volume Gaslighting (forthcoming); and the author of more than 100 scholarly articles on a variety of topics, including refugee detention, capital punishment, animal ethics, sexual violence, images of women and war, psychoanalysis, and film. Her work has been translated into eight languages. She has been interviewed on ABC News, appeared on CSPAN Books, and published in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, among other appearances and publications in popular media. Kelly is also the bestselling author of three award-winning mystery series: the Jessica James Mysteries (contemporary suspense), the Fiona Figg Mysteries (historical cozy), and the Pet Detective Mysteries (middle grade).