Ann Pellegrini

Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies (Tisch School of the Arts) and Social and Cultural Analysis (Faculty of Arts and Science) at NYU and the director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. In 1998, they founded the Sexual Cultures book series at NYU Press with José Muñoz; they now co-edit the series with Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o. Their book You Can Tell Just By Looking, co-authored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico, was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-Fiction.

Pellegrini has undergraduate degrees from Harvard College, where they were president of the Radcliffe Union of Students, and Oxford University. They then earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.