Jay Prosser is a Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he specialises in Jewish studies and creative nonfiction.

He has published academic books, including the first study of transsexual life writing, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (1998; Columbia UP), a book that continues to sell very well 25 years after publication; and Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (2004; Minnesota UP), an exploration of how writers have used photographs. He has worked on a book with Amnesty International examining the value of photographs of atrocity in our news media (Picturing Atrocity; Reaktion; 2012) and edited collections, including C20th American fiction, and gender and narrative. He now specialises in writing about Jews in Asia and Jews’ relations with other groups.