Gayle Salamon

Gayle Salamon is a Professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric (2002) and serves as Associate Chair of the English Department. Her work bridges phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer/transgender theory, disability studies, and Continental philosophy.

• Education: PhD, UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric, 2002

Her research explores materiality, embodiment, and critical phenomenology. Notable works include Assuming a Body (Lambda Literary Award-winning) and The Life and Death of Latisha King, analyzing transphobia through phenomenology. Recent articles engage critical phenomenology's methodologies and masculinity studies.

Awards include the Iris Marion Young Prize for Feminist Philosophy (2017) and the Lambda Literary Award. Current projects address mid-century phenomenology’s ethics and pain narratives in disability memoirs.