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Books

Love The Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (New York University Press, 2003).  Co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen.  Paperback edition, with new preface, pub. by Beacon Press (March 2004).

 

Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997).

 

Edited Collections

Secularisms.  Co-editor with Janet R. Jakobsen (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Co-editor, with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz (Columbia University Press, 2003).

Special Issues of Journals

“Public Sentiments,” Special Issue of S & F Online 2:1 (summer/fall 2003), http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/ps/index.htm.  Guest Editor, with Ann Cvetkovich.

“World Secularisms at the Millennium,” Special Issue of Social Text 64 vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall 2000). Co-Editor, with Janet R. Jakobsen.

Book Series

Sexual Cultures: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. Co-editor, with José Esteban Muñoz (New York University Press). 1999-present.

Book Chapters

After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp, The Blackwell Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies, ed. George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry (London: Blackwell, 2007 [in press]).

Staging Sexual Injury: How I Learned to Drive, Critical Theory and Performance, second edition, ed. Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, in press).

Repercussions and Remainders in the Plays of Paula Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments, The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 473-85.

 

Consuming Lifestyle: Commodity Capitalism and Transformations in Gay Identity, Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, ed. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan (New York: New York University Press, 2002): 134-145.

(Laughter), Psychoanalysis and Performance, ed. Adrian Kear and Patrick Campbell (London: Routledge, 2001): 179-93.

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): Sandra Bernhard’s Whiteface, With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture, ed. Lisa Bloom (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1999): 237-49. [Reprinted, with slight revisions, from Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race.]

Getting Religion (co-written with Janet R. Jakobsen), One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture, ed. Marjorie Garber and Rebecca Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1999): 101-14. [Reprinted in Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader, ed. Elizabeth A. Castelli (New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2002.]

Women on Top, Boys on the Side, But Some of Us are Brave: Blackness, Lesbianism and the Visible, Race-ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality, ed. Kostas and Linda Myrsiades (New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998): 247-63. [Reprinted in Japanese-language version of With Other Eyes (Tokyo, 2000): 247-68.]

Whiteface Performances: “Race,” Gender, and Jewish Bodies, Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies, ed. Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1997): 108-49.

Queer Collaborations: Feminist Pedagogy (co-written with Paul B. Franklin), Lesbian Studies: Present and Future, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman and Toni A.H. McNaron (New York: Feminist Press, 1997): 120-26.

Interarticulations: Gender, Race, and the Jewish Woman Question, Judaism Since Gender, ed. Miriam Peskowitz and Laura Levitt (New York: Routledge, 1997): 49-55.

There’s no place like home?: Lesbian Studies and the Classics, Tilting the Tower: Lesbians/Teaching/Queer Subjects, ed. Linda S. Garber (New York: Routledge, 1994): 70-82.

S[h]ifting the Terms of Hetero/Sexism: Gender, Power, Homophobias, Homophobia: How We All Pay the Price, ed. Warren Blumenfeld (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992): 39-56. [Reprinted in Multicultural Prism: Diversity in the Curriculum, a CD-ROM co-produced by J.Q. Adams and Janice R. Welsch (Illinois Board of Higher Education, 1999).]

Journal Articles

Unnatural Affinities: Me and Judy at the Lesbian Bar, Camera Obscura (2007 [in press]).

 

Sarah Bernhardt, Live: A Reply to Allen Ellenzweig, Studies in Gender and Sexuality (2007 [in press]).

 

Melancholy Hope and Other Psychic Remainders: Afterthoughts on Love the Sin, co-written with Janet R. Jakobsen, Studies in Gender and Sexuality 6.4 (2005): 423-440. 

 

Testimonial Sexuality; or, Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: Notes Towards an Investigation, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (Fall 2005): 93-102.

 

Performing Affect: A Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith and Ann Pellegrini, “Public Sentiments,” special issue of S & F Online 2:1 (summer 2003), www.barnard.edu/sfonline/ps/smith.htm

 

A Gay Purge at Harvard, 1920, The Gay & Lesbian Review 10: 2 (March-April 2003): 10-11.

 

Untitled Essay, “Forum on Theatre and Tragedy in the wake of September 11, 2001,” Theatre Journal 54.1 (March 2002): 113-115.

 

Touching the Past; or, Hanging Chad, “History’s Queer Touch: Responses to Carolyn Dinshaw’s Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern,” special forum in Journal of the History of Sexuality  10.2 (April 2001).

 

Star Gazing.  the minnesota review n.s. 52-54 (winter 2001): 209-214.

 

Interested Third Parties: A Response to Tania Modleski, Critical Inquiry 26.3 (Spring 2000): 619-26.

 

Normalizing Citizenship, Forgetting Difference, review essay of The American Dream in Black and White: The Clarence Thomas Hearings, by Jane Flax, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 10.4 (2000): 701-712.

 

Pedagogy’s Turn: Observations on Students, Teachers, and Transference-Love, Critical Inquiry 25.3 (Spring 1999): 617-25.

 

Untitled essay, “Lesbian Historiography Before the Name?: A Response to Bernadette Brooten’s Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism,” special forum in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 4:4: 557-630.

 

Women on Top, Boys on the Side, But Some of Us Are Brave: Blackness, Lesbianism, and the Visible, College Literature, Special Issue: “Queer Utilities” 24.1 (Feb. 1997): 83-97.   [Revised and reprinted in Race-ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality, ed. Kostas and Linda Myrsiades.]

 

Classics and closets: when teachers come out in the classroom, Women’s Review of Books Feb. 1994: 11-12.

Reviews

Untitled Review of Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical, by Andrea Most, American Jewish History vol. 92, no. 2.1 (2004 [2005]): 253-55.

 

Mind the Gap?, review of Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory, by Linda Garber, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 10.4 (2004): 637-39.

 

Untitled Review of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS, by David Román, Theatre Journal 52.2 (May 2000): 287-88.

 

Selling Identity, review of Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, by Sarah Schulman, Women’s Review of Books Nov. 1998.

 

From the Stage to the Page, review of Split Britches: Lesbian Practice, Lesbian Performance, edited by Sue-Ellen Case; and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture, by Sue-Ellen Case, Women’s Review of Books Oct. 1997: 22-3.

 

Jewishness as Gender, review of Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger, edited by Nancy Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams, Shofar, Special Issue: “Engendering Jewish Knowledges,” 14.1 (Fall 1995): 138-40.

 

Untitled Review of The Lesbian Postmodern, ed. Laura Doan, Journal of the History of Sexuality 6.2 (Oct. 1995): 346-8.

 

Long Before Stonewall, review of Bisexuality in the Ancient World, by Eva Cantarella, Women’s Review of Books Sept. 1993: 29-30.

 

Additional Publications

Love the Sin: An Interview with Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini (by Robert Laczko).  Out in Jersey (August/September 2003).

 

Freedom of Sex: Marriage for gay couples is about far more than tolerance, op. ed. (co-written with Janet R. Jakobsen) New York Newsday, 13 July 2003, “Currents,” 31.

 

Why Sodomy Statutes Violate Religious Freedom, op. ed. (co-written with Janet R. Jakobsen), http://www.beliefnet.com/story/123/story_12360_1.html (26 March 2003).

 

Psychoanalysis and Performance, entry for Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, ed. Dennis Kennedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).

 

Lesbianism in Classical Literature, entry for Encyclopedia of Lesbianism, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman (New York: Garland, 2000): 173-75.

 

Cultural Studies, Feminisms, and Gender Studies, co-written with Janet R. Jakobsen, entries for Encyclopedia on Women and Religion, ed. Serinity Young, et al. (New York: MacMillan, 1999).

 

This is a Sex Panic!, co-written with Douglas Crimp, Eva Pendleton, and Michael Warner, Fountain 6.2 (March 1998): 22-24.

 

Lesbianism Lite, New York Blade, 24 October 1998, 27.

 

Rape is a Bias Crime, op. ed., New York Times, 27 May 1990, late ed., sec. 4: 13.