Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies ( Tisch School of the Arts) and Social and Cultural Analysis (Faculty of Arts and Science) at

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and the director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. In 1998, she founded the Sexual Cultures book series at NYU Press with José Muñoz; she now co-edits the series with Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson and

Tavia Nyong'o Tavia Nyong'o (born 1974) is a critic and scholar of art and performance. He is William Lampson Professor of African American Studies, American Studies and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University where he teaches courses on black dias ...

. Her book ''You Can Tell Just By Looking'', co-authored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico, was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-Fiction. Pellegrini has undergraduate degrees from Harvard College and Oxford University. She then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Bibliography

* ''Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race'' ( Routledge, 1997) * ''Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance'' with Janet R. Jakobsen (NYU Press, 2003;

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, 2004) * ''"You Can Tell Just By Looking" and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People'' with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico (Beacon Press, 2013) * ed. ''Queer Theory and the Jewish Question'' with Daniel Boyarin and Danial Itzkovitz ( Columbia University Press, 2003) * ed. ''Secularisms'' with Janet R. Jakobsen ( Duke University Press, 2008)

References

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