Alessandra Pellegrini

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ID190853
NOMBREAlessandra Pellegrini
NOMBRESAlessandra
APELLIDOPellegrini
FIRMAPELLEGRINI A
AFILIACIONESNew York University
ORCID0000-0002-2263-1976
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS56
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1999
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Dragging History

    Open AccessAlessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEPsychoanalytic Dialogues2026

    This discussion of Danny Gellersen’s paper, “A Peculiar People: Mormonism, Drag Performance, and Erotic Non-Belonging at the Intersection of a Psychoanalyst’s Werk and Identity,” picks up and complicates the language of “the peculiar,” which has been a historically enduring way of referring to Mormons, both as a term of derision and as a form of positive self-identification. In a nutshell: Mormon peculiarity cuts many ways and has never been inno…

  • Thinking Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos

    Open AccessAlessandra Pellegrini, Ann Pellegrini et al.ARTICLEReligious Studies Review2025

  • On the origins of Gender Without Identity

    Avgi Saketopoulou, Alessandra Pellegrini et al.ARTICLEPsychoanalytic Inquiry2025

    In this wide-ranging and generative conversation, Ann Pellegrini and Avgi Saketopoulou reflect on the origins of their collaboration and the theoretical, clinical, and political commitments that shaped their coauthored book Gender Without Identity. Tracing their distinct yet converging paths – from academic, activist, and clinical spaces – they explore how transness is often misunderstood, pathologized, or contained within psychoanalytic discours…

  • Genre Trouble and the Poetic Risk of Form

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEPsychoanalytic Dialogues2021

    This response to Kathleen Del Mar Miller’s paper “A Radically Open Analysis: Writing as Wrapping, Video as Skin” (this issue) focuses on the question of form: the form of the psychoanalytic case study and forms of embodiment

  • Consuming Lifestyle

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniCHAPTERQueer Globalizations2020

  • An Introduction, In Parts

    Alessandra PellegriniARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2019

    This article introduces a portfolio of three essays on the theme “What difference does the digital make?” These essays were originally given as talks at an annual forum co-hosted by this journal and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. After briefly laying out the concerns of these three essays, this article introduces and summarizes the essays that make up the second half of this issue of Studies in Gender and…

  • What Can I Say? Contested Words and Contested Thoughts in the Contemporary Moment

    Open AccessMichael Stuart Garfinkle, Jill Gentile et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…2019Referencias: 20

  • Introduction to Nonhuman Encounters

    Katie Gentile, Alessandra Pellegrini et al.ARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2018

    This essay is the introduction to the panel “Nonhuman Encounters: Animals, Objects, Affects, and the Place of Practice” featuring papers by Carla Freccero, Katie Gentile, Ann Pellegrini, Nathan Snaza, Donovan Schaefer, Nuar Alsadir, Francisco Gonzalez, Julietta Singh, Eleonora Fabião, Michelle Stephens, and Patricia Clough. Each essay responds to the question of these encounters in places of practice, including the clinical

  • The Dog Who Barks and the Noise of the Human

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2018Citada por: 3Referencias: 1

    What would or could a psychoanalysis beyond the human be? And who—and how—might we who call ourselves human be or become in turn? In the “Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis,” Freud (1916–1917) famously declared psychoanalysis to be the third great blow to human self-love delivered at the hands of science. First, the Copernican revolution revealed that the earth was not the center of the universe “but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system o…

  • MeToo

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2018Citada por: 4

    This essay asks, why now? What contributed to the rapid public success of #MeToo in this contemporary moment? It situates the explosion of #MeToo within both a longer history of feminist debates and activism around sexual violence, in which feminists of color have played a leading role, and the rage and bewilderment so many women have experienced in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. The author proposes the term “facilitative displacement” as a…

  • Danger Talk

    Alessandra PellegriniARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2017

    This article introduces a set of essays on the theme “Danger Talk: Sexual Error and the Limits of Thought.” To situate the essays, the author explains the original context for the essays: a 2016 forum at New York University (NYU) co-sponsored by NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality

  • Love objects beyond measure

    Alessandra PellegriniARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2016

  • Introducing Testo Junkie

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2016

    This article introduces the portfolio of essays on Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2013). After briefly describing the project of that book, the essay explains the history of the public forum and, now, publication in which Preciado was in conversation with 3 clinicians: Kirsten Lentz, Carolyn Stack, and Jamieson Webster

  • Sincerely Held; Or, the Pastorate 2.0

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLESocial Text2016Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    This essay examines the role of sincerity in several recent US Supreme Court cases on religious freedom in which plaintiffs successfully sought religious exemptions from otherwise applicable state or federal laws: Hosanna-Tabor, Hobby Lobby, and Holt. Under a religious sincerity test, law cannot and does not distinguish religion from nonreligion; individual believers can and do. Instead, courts trust a person’s or group’s self-reporting—that they…

  • Preconceiving Life

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2015

    Drawing on the resources of psychoanalysis, feminism, and queer theories of temporality, this essay considers time as a key aspect of the neoliberal management of life. All subjects are not equal in time, and the author explores the crossing points—and points of no return—between the endlessly potentiating fetus, that vessel of pure futurity, and the dead time of imprisonment. How does time coat and code some bodies as life, for living, while rem…

  • Responsibilization, same-sex marriage, and the end of queer sex

    Open AccessAlessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEPsychoanalysis Culture & Society2015Referencias: 2

  • Trajectories of Indigeneity and Nationalism in Contemporary Bolivia

    Alessandra PellegriniARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2013Referencias: 2

  • A Storm on the Horizon

    Open AccessAlessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLECultural Studies Review2012

    This essay examines an 'anti-Shariah' law passed by voters in the US state of Oklahoma in 2010, alongside contemporaneous controversies over the so-called 'Ground Zero Mosque' in New York City. In both these cases, the terms of debate framed American Muslims as outsiders and, even, threats to the nation. Together, these two case studies reveal the religious traces that mark even ostensibly secular debates over democratic belonging. They also reve…

  • Movement

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEMaterial Religion2011Citada por: 2Referencias: 6

  • The Dogs of War and the Dogs at Home

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEAmerican imago2009Citada por: 4

    In the media room at the Freud Museum in Vienna, home movies of the Freud family run on an endless loop. Entitled Freud: 1930–1939, the movies are narrated by Anna Freud, who oversaw their compilation and editing during the last two years of her life. Within these ostensibly "private" scenes of the Freud family, the family dogs assume a surprisingly central role. This essay argues that the focus on the dogs becomes a way to narrate and narrate ar…

  • Feeling secular

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLEWomen & Performance a journal of…2009Citada por: 5Referencias: 7

    In the past decade, “affect” has emerged as a keyword for queer and feminist studies–and beyond. The turn to affect is also a re-turn, with contemporary studies of affect drawing across rich earlier studies of emotion, feelings and sentiment. This article is less interested in offering a long history of affect studies than it is in asking: Why affect? Why now? As a provisional response this article situates the so-called “affective turn” (to use …

  • "Religion, Secularism, and a Democratic Politics of "As If

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLESocial research2009

    "The religious" and "the secular" are often posed as a divide; a narrative which poses religion and secularism as antagonists. This long-standing habit of thought remains active in the contemporary United States, polarizing public debates and generating misunderstanding. Are there other ways of talking about and enacting the relations between "religion" and "secularism" that can avoid balkanization and stereotypification? This paper examines the …

  • Obama's Neo-New Deal

    Janet R Jakobsen, Alessandra Pellegrini et al.ARTICLESocial research2009Citada por: 3

    The "religious and secular divide" cannot be understood unless we think about the way sex gets mobilized on both sides of this supposed divide. In our joint writing, we have resisted thinking of the religious and the secular as a divide; we have rather been interested to think them relationally—as relations. Thus, the larger suggestion of this paper is that we cannot truly imagine and practice democratic politics—to name some keywords for this di…

  • Affect

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann Pellegrini et al.ARTICLESocial Text2009Citada por: 8

    This essay traces Fredric Jameson's important early analyses of the waning of affect and disappearance of the depth psychological subject under conditions of postmodernism, arguments he developed over the course of several essays in Social Text —beginning, in fact, in the journal's very first issue. This brief survey of Jameson's argument launches a sketch of the multiple genealogies and political uptakes of the term affect in more recent scholar…

  • Habeas Corpus

    Alessandra Pellegrini, Ann PellegriniARTICLETDR/The Drama Review2008

    This issue's Critical Acts focuses on “war and other bad shit” in terms of censorship, immigration, and art as a form of political protest and recovery. In “Habeas Corpus,” Ann Pellegrini uses Sally Field's censored Emmy-acceptance speech to exemplify the Bush administration's privatization of mourning as a means “to bind us to acts of fatal violence against an objectified and dehumanized ‘enemy.’” In her account of Luigi Nono's The Forest Is You…