Gayle Salamon

As assistant professor of English at Princeton University, Gayle Salamon specializes in gender and queer theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and 20th century Continental philosophy. Her recently published book, Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality, discusses embodiment and transgender subjectivity. Recent articles include “Transfeminism and the Future of Women’s Studies” in Women’s Studies on the Edge, (Joan Scott, ed., Duke University Press, 2008), “The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception” in You’ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, (Laurie Schrage, ed., Oxford University Press, 2008) and “Justification and Queer Method, or: Leaving Philosophy” in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Vol 24 No. 1, Winter 2009. Gayle Salamon earned her Ph.D. from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2002.