What Do we Learn About Rape Jokes From Rape Jokes About Rape Jokes?

Gayle Salamon, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, psychoanalysis, and disability studies. She is the author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (Columbia University Press, 2010), winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. She is currently at work on two manuscripts, one exploring narrations of pain and bodily disability entitled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain, and a second, The Life and Death of Latisha King, analyzing the 2008 classroom murder of gender-transgressive 15-year-old L. King.
CONTACT Gayle Salamon, Ph.D., Department of English, 22 McCosh Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.