Faculty Research Panel Gender Womens Studies, UC Berkeley

Mel Y. Chen (link to: Assistant Professor, Gender Women s Studies Mel Chen, a GWS Assistant Professor and Interim Vice Chair for Research, has a PhD in linguistics and works at the intersection of critical race theory, science studies, linguistics, sexuality, and disability studies, with articles in Women and Performance, GLQ and Discourse. Mel s book, Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, is forthcoming in 2012. Leslie Salzinger (link to: Associate Professor, Gender Women s Studies