Ann Pellegrini is associate professor of performance studies and religious studies at New York University, where she also directs NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race; co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance; and co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz, of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. She and Jakobsen also co-edited the recent anthology Secularisms.