Queer Theory Research Cluster – Center for Cultural Studies

The Queer Theory Research Cluster presents:

Ann Pellegrini: “The Trouble with Sex: Bodily Vulnerability, Religionized Anxiety, and the Psychic Life of Tolerance”

Ann Pellegrini’s books include Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (NYU, 2003), Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997), and Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, co-edited with Daniel Boyarin and Daniel Itzkovitz (Columbia, 2003). Ann Pellegrini is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at NYU.

Please download the following readings associated with this event:
Reading 1
Reading 2

For more information, contact Trevor Sangrey at tsangrey@ucsc.edu, or Logan Walker at lwalker@ucsc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the departments of American Studies, Anthropology, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Politics.

Juana María Rodríguez is Associate Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley and Director of the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Space (NYU, 2003). Her recent essays are included in The Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies (Blackwell, 2007); None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (Palgrave, 2007); MELUS (2009); and PMLA (2007).

This presentation, based on Sexual Subjects: Sexual Discourse and the Everyday Politics of Queer Cultural Life, focuses on the everyday lives of sexual subjects to consider the ways sex, sexual pleasure, and sexual practices are deployed in political projects that rethink forms of recognition and sociality. The book considers four distinct areas: intimate sexual practices, kinship relations, public cultures, and state deployments of sexual discourse.

Co-sponsored by the Queer Theory Research Cluster.