Ann Pellegrini

Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis and Performance Studies

Education

  • 1994 Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Harvard University
  • 1992 A.M. in Study of Religion, Harvard University
  • 1988 B.A. in Literae Humaniores, Oxford University
  • 1986 A.B. in Classics, Harvard-Radcliffe

Areas of Research/Interest

religion, sexuality, and U.S. public life • performance and law • psychoanalysis and culture • trauma studies • lgbtq studies • feminist studies • gender and performance • affect studies • critical theories of secularism • religion and biopolitics • Jewish cultural studies • childhood studies

External Affiliations

Member, American Academy of Religion • Member, American Psychological Association Division 39 • Member, American Studies Association • Member, Modern Language Association • Fellow, Psychology and the Other Institute • Contributing Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality

Fellowships/Honors

First Tiresias Paper Award from the International Psychoanalytic Association for an essay co-written with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou (2021) • Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-Fiction, for “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People (2014) • Faculty Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University (2012-13) • Constance Rourke Prize for best article published in American Quarterly, American Studies Association (2008) • Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis, Austrian Fulbright Commission and Sigmund-Freud-Society (2007) • Arnold Grossman Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff Service to the LGBT Community, NYU (2005) • First Annual BGLT Faculty Ally Award, Harvard University Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Association (1999) • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship (1996).

Publications

“You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People. Co-author, with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico. Boston: Beacon Press, 2013.

Secularisms. Co-editor, with Janet R. Jakobsen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.

Love The Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. Co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Book Series

Sexual Cultures, New York University Press — General Editor with José Esteban Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers-Letson.

Journal special issues

Public Sentiments, Special Issue of S & F Online 2:1 (Fall 2003). Guest Editor, with Ann Cvetkovich.

World Secularisms at the Millennium, Special Issue of Social Text 64 (Fall 2000). Co-Editor, with Janet R. Jakobsen.