Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis 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.