Ann Pellegrini, Director
Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University. She has been director of CSGS since 2008. Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, she held teaching appointments at UC-Irvine, Barnard College, and Harvard University. She is the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997), co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (NYU Press, 2003; Beacon Press, 2004); co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz, of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Columbia University Press, 2003); and co-editor, with Jakobsen, of Secularisms (Duke University Press, 2008). With José Esteban Muñoz she co-edits the book series “Sexual Cultures” for New York University Press. In 2007 she was the Freud-Fulbright Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis at the Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung in Vienna. Her essay, “‘Signaling through the Flames’: Hell House Performance and Structures of Religious Feeling,” received the 2008 Constance Rourke Prize from the American Studies Association for the best article published in American Quarterly (Vol. 59, 2007). She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Harvard University, in 1994. She holds degrees in Classics from Harvard-Radcliffe College and Oxford University as well as an M.A. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University.
Listen to podcasts of Ann Pellegrini
Ann Pellegrini on YouTube
Ann Pellegrini at The Scholar and Feminist Online
and at The Immanent Frame
and at The Revealer
Robert Campbell, Associate Director
Robert Campbell has been with CSGS as an administrator since 2004. He holds an M.A. in British and American Literature from Hunter College, where he taught an undergraduate expository writing course; his thesis was on the role of suffering and theological spectacle in selected works of Philip K. Dick. He is a graduate of Eugene Lang College, where he concentrated in literature, anthropology and education with a specific focus on social identity. Robert has held professional positions in fields as varied as hiv/aids social services, elementary education and commercial photography. When he is not attempting to stay on top of the information revolution, Robert spends his time daydreaming of (and planning!) travel to faraway lands.
Alex Dill, Office Assistant
Alex Dill is the most recent member of team CSGS. She recently graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in English. She also earned minors in Creative Writing and Gender/Sexuality Studies, and it is these fields that she is studying at NYU Gallatin. She has hopes of starting a non-profit organization devoted to educating women about health, sexuality, and self-expression. Alex is a full time student, a dancer and a yogi. Her childhood in Delaware and her education at a Quaker school have made her abhor violence and believe in love. In her spare time she stays up late writing, cooking vegan meals, and singing show tunes.
