Gayle Salamon is completing her term as Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow here at Princeton and will join our department as an assistant professor in the fall. Gayle received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation entitled “Assuming a Body: Transgenderism and Rhetorics of Materiality.” She is currently completing a manuscript based on that project, which combines psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories of embodiment in an analysis of transgenderism. Salamon held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, and taught a wide array of courses at the University of California-Berkeley on the topics of embodiment, gender, and LGBT studies. While at Princeton she has explored the function of transgender within lesbian, feminist and queer discourses, and has written about trans identity, feminism, and photography. Her articles have appeared in differences, GLQ, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Most recently she offered a course entitled “What Is a Body?” in the departments of Comparative Literature, English, and the Program in Women and Gender.
We will also be welcoming the following visitors to our graduate faculty in the fall.
Prof. Rey Chow (Theory), Brown University
Prof. Wayne Koestenbaum (Contemporary Poetry), CUNY Graduate Center
Prof. Rita Copeland (Medieval) of the University of Pennsylvania will be teaching a graduate course in the spring of 09.
In addition, Margaret Doody of Vanderbilt and the writer Colm Toibin will be teaching undergrads, but we look forward to bringing grads and visitors together once again next year in special events and seminars.
