Professor of English
Gayle Salamon’s research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, continental philosophy and disability studies. She is the author of “Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality,” which received the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. Her most recent book, “The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia,” uses phenomenology to explore the case of Latisha King, a 15-year-old trans girl who was shot and killed in her Oxnard, California, junior high school by a 14-year-old classmate. Her co-edited volume with Gail Weiss and Ann Murphy, “Fifty Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology,” was published in 2020. She is currently at work on two projects: a manuscript on imagination, experimentation and ethics in mid-20th century phenomenology, and a monograph exploring narrations of bodily pain and disability in contemporary memoir entitled “Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain.”