SUSAN J. BRISON is 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. She joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1985. She has held visiting positions at Tufts University, New York University, and Princeton University, and has been a Mellon Fellow in the Program in Law, Philosophy, and Social Theory at New York University. She also has been an NEH-funded member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Her areas of expertise include the philosophy of law; social and political philosophy; feminist ethics; trauma theory; hate speech; freedom of expression; and gender-based violence.  Professor Brison delivered Dartmouth’s 2018 Presidential Lecture: “Sexual Violence, Social Meanings, and Narrative Selves.” Her current work in progress is Debating the Ethics of Pornography: Sex, Violence, Harm, co-authored with Andrew Altman, which is under contract with Oxford University Press