Melinda Chen
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Melinda Chen, Ph.D. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and the Director of the Carceral Studies Consortium at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Chen’s research, teaching, and service-advocacy are centrally concerned with sexual violence, queer of color critique, feminist and queer method/ologies, and transformative justice. She is the author of Killing Radicalism: Anti-Rape Advocacy Reimagined (NYU Press 2026) and coauthor of the forthcoming book, The Justice We Demand: Indigenous Voices from the Anti-Rape Revolution with Professor Sarah Deer (Mvskoke) (University of Minnesota Press 2027).
