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Associate Professor of Religious Studies
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Research Interests: Queer theory; religion and sexuality; psychoanalysis and culture; religion, performance, and community formation; cultures of childhood; feminist and queer performance; confessional culture; religion and secularism; Jewish cultural studies.
Affiliations: American Academy of Religion; American Studies Association; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Modern Language Association; Performance Studies International.
Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright-Freud Visiting Scholar of Psychoanalysis, Austrian Fulbright Commission and Sigmund-Freud-Society, 2006-07; The Arnold Grossman Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff Service to the LGBT Community, Office of LGBT Student Services at New York University, 2005; First Annual BGLT Faculty Ally Award, Harvard University Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Association, 1999; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar (Jewish Cultural Studies), 1996; Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1986-93; Harvard University Graduate Writing Fellowship, 1993; Keasbey Scholarship to Oxford University, 1986-1988; Sargent Prize for Latin Translation, Harvard College, 1985.
Selected Works:
Secularisms. Co-editor with Janet R. Jakobsen. Duke University Press, 2008 (in press).
"Unnatural Affinities: Me and Judy at the Lesbian Bar," Camera Obscura 65 (Aug. 2007): 126-133.
"'Signaling through the Flames': Hell House Performance and Structures of Religious Feeling," American Quarterly 59.3 (Fall 2007): 921-45.
"After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp," The Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies, ed. George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry (London: Blackwell, 2007): 166-91.
"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, 2007): 413-31.
Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. Co-author with Janet. R. Jakobsen. Second Edition with new preface, "The More Things Change: Sexual Freedom after Lawrence v. Texas." Beacon Press, 2004.
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question. Co-editor with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz. Columbia University Press, 2003.
"Public Sentiments," in Special Issue of S & F Online 2:1, Fall 2003. Guest Editor with Ann Cvetkovich.
Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race. Routledge, 1997.
Other Projects: Sexual Cultures: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. General Editor of this book series, with José Esteban Muñoz. New York University Press, 1999-present.
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