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.

Work in Progress

Against Childhood.   A polemical examination of the paradoxical construction of childhood innocence in the contemporary United States: When it comes to sex, Americans are dedicated to preserving childhood “innocence” for as long as possible; but, when it comes to youth crime and punishment, American courts are locking some “bad” kids out of the category of childhood—by locking them up for the rest of their lives.   

 

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.