Elaine Showalter on Douglas Gordon

Elaine Showalter is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of many books, including The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980 (1985) and Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (1997). She is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.