Ann Pellegrini writes, teaches, and practices across a number of interdisciplinary fields and conversations: queer and trans studies; gender and performance; psychoanalytic studies; trauma studies; religion, sexuality, and U.S. public life; comparative secularisms; affect studies; and Foucault studies. They are also a licensed psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City.

They are the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997); co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (NYU Press, 2003; Beacon Press, 2004); and co-author, with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico, of “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Beacon Press, 2013). “You Can Tell Just By Looking” was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Non-Fiction.

Pellegrini’s most recent book is Gender Without Identity (Unconscious in Translation, 2023), co-authored with Avgi Saketopoulou. Gender Without Identity received the 2024 IPPY Awards Silver Medal for LGBTQ+ Non-fiction. She has also published two anthologies: Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, co-edited with Daniel Boyarin and Danial Itzkovitz (Columbia University Press, 2003); and Secularisms, co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen (Duke University Press, 2008). Pellegrini is founding co-editor, with José Esteban Muñoz, of the “Sexual Cultures” Series, at New York University Press, which she now co-edits with Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong’o.