Background

Ann Pellegrini was born on April 16, 1964, in the United States.

Education

Pellegrini holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classics (1986) from Harvard University and from Oxford University (1988), a Master of Arts in the Study of Religion (1992), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Studies (1994) from Harvard University.

Career

Ann Pellegrini is a Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. In spring 2008, she was Acting Director of New York University's Religious Studies Program. She is also affiliated with the Board of Directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York.

She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (1997); co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (2003); and co-author, with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico, of "You Can Tell Just By Looking" and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (2013).

She has also published two anthologies: Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, co-edited with Daniel Boyarin and Danial Itzkovitz (2003); and Secularisms, co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen (2008). Pellegrini co-edits the "Sexual Cultures" Series, at New York University Press, with Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o.

She is also co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Psychoanalysis. She's currently completing a new book on "queer structures of religious feeling."

Achievements

• Ann Pellegrini is an outstanding and prolific educator and author. She received many awards including The First Annual BGLT Faculty Ally Award in 1999, Arnold Grossman Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff Service to the LGBT Community in 2005, Constance Rourke Prize for the best article published in American Quarterly from American Studies Association in 2008. "You Can Tell Just By Looking" and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-Fiction.

Works

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  • "You Can Tell Just By Looking": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

    (2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction Brea...)

    2013
  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

    (The essays in this volume boldly map the historically res...)

    2003
  • Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race

    (Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over ...)

    1997
  • Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance

    (In this powerful and timely book, Janet R. Jakobsen and A...)

    2003
  • Secularisms 2008

Views

Ann's teaching and research interests are related to Queer theory; religion in American public life; religion and sexuality; psychoanalysis and culture; religion, performance, and community formation; cultures of childhood; feminist and queer performance; confessional culture; religion and secularism; Jewish cultural studies; and trauma studies.

Her books and articles traverse several disciplines and interdisciplinary, but one through-line is an abiding interest in exploring how feelings are lived, experienced, and communicated between and across bodies - and with what risks and possibilities for self and others. Another is the value of the aesthetic for repairing democratic social life.

Connections

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Janet Jakobsen

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Daniel Boyarin

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Daniel Itzkovitz

References

• Ann Pellegrini - Twitter