Other Writings
2018
Nonhuman Encounters: Animals, Objects, Affects, and the Place of Practice
Special Issue of Studies in Gender and Sexuality 19.1. Co-edited with Katie Gentile
2017
States of Devotion: Religion, Neoliberalism, Biopolitics
Special Issue of Emisférica 13.1. Co-edited with Juan Marco Vaggione
2003
2000
World Secularisms at the Millennium
Special Issue of Social Text 64 vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall). Co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen
2021
“Genre Trouble and the Poetic Risk of Form: A Response to Kathleen Del Mar Miller”
Psychoanalytic Dialogues 31.5: 545-550
2019
“What Can I Say? Contested Words and Contested Thoughts in the Contemporary Moment”
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 67.4 (Oct.): 655-97
2016
“Sincerely Held; or, The Pastorate 2.0”
Special issue on “Race/Religion/War,” ed. Keith Feldman and Leerom Medovoi, Social Text 129 34.4 (Dec.), 71-85
2016
“Love Objects Beyond Measure: Experiments in Wild Invention”
Special issue on “Psychoanalysis and the Humanities,” Psychoanalytic Psychology 33 (Suppl 1): S186-97
2015
“Responsibilization, Same-Sex Marriage, and the End of Queer Sex”
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society 20 (Sept.): 237-45
2012
“‘A Storm on the Horizon’: Discomforting Democracy and the Feeling of Fairness”
Secular Discomforts: Religion and Cultural Studies, ed. Holly Randell-Moon and Sophie Sunderland, special issue of Cultural Studies Review 18.2 (Sept.): 16-30
2009
“Obama’s Neo New Deal: Religion, Secularism, and Sex in Political Debates Now”
co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen, Social Research 76.4 (Winter): 1227-1254
2009
“The Dogs of War and the Dogs at Home: Thresholds of Loss”
American Imago 6.2 (2009): 231-51
2009
2008
“‘What do children learn at school?’: Necropedagogy and the Future of the Dead Child”
Social Text 26.4 (Winter): 97-105
2007
“‘Signaling through the Flames’: Hell House Performance and Structures of Religious Feeling”
American Quarterly 59.3 (Fall): 921-45
2007
2007
“Art, Activism, and Social Change: ‘A Hell of a lot of hard work’—An interview with Karen Finley”
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 17.3 (Nov.): 331-37
2005
“Testimonial Sexuality; or, Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: Notes Towards an Investigation”
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism XX.1 (Fall): 93-102
2023
“No Sex, Please. We’re Psychoanalysts”
Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen, ed. Stephen Hartman (New York: Routledge), 231-40
2022
“This is Not About Trump: Rage, Resistance, and the Persistence of Racism”
Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment, ed. Donald Moss and Lynne Zeavin (London: Routledge, 2022), 32-50
2021
“From No to Know: Charting the ‘Space Between’”
Social Aspects of Sexual Boundary Trouble in Psychoanalysis: Responses to the Work of Muriel Dimen, ed. Charles Levin (New York: Routledge), 175-89
2020
“After Words, Afterwards: Teaching Foucault”
Foucault’s Theatres, ed. Tony Fisher and Kélina Gotman (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press), 239-43
2019
“Responsibilization, same-sex marriage, and the end of queer sex”
Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society, ed. Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna (New York: Routledge), 139-48
2019
“Foreword: Before and After”
co-authored with Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong’o. Preface to 10th anniversary edition of José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (NYU Press), ix-xvi
2018
“Reenactability”
co-authored with Karen Shimakawa, Law and Performance, ed. Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press), 101-21
2017
“Ever, Again: Psychoanalysis, Secular Time, and the Performance of Witness”
Performing the Secular: Religion Representation and Politics, ed. Milija Gluhovic and Jisha Menon (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 217-39
2017
“Listening within the ‘grief of distortions’”
Law and Mourning, ed. Austin Sarat and Martha Umphrey (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press), 94-116
2017
“Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: What Time Is Now?”
Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies, ed. Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal, Stephen D. Moore (New York: Fordham University Press), 240-57
2014
“Zooglossia: The Unknown Tongues of Heather Woodbury”
Animal Acts: Performing Species Today, ed. Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2014), 210-15
2013
“Bodies-Politics: Christian Secularism and the Gendering of U.S. Policy”
co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen, Religion, the Secular and the Politics of Sexual Difference, ed. Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden (New York: Columbia University Press), 139-74
2012
“Teaching Friction”
The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics, ed. Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen (New York: Columbia University Press), 146-50
2011
2011
“Closing Ranks, Keeping Company: Marriage Plots and the Will to Be Single in Much Ado About Nothing”
Shakesqueer, ed. Madhavi Menon (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), 245-53
2007
“After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp”
A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies, ed. George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 166-91
2007
“Staging Sexual Injury: How I Learned to Drive”
Critical Theory and Performance, second edition, ed. Janelle G. Reinelt and Joseph R. Roach (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press), 413-31
2004
“Repercussions and Remainders in the Plays of Paula Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments”
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Drama, ed. David Krasner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 473-85
2002
“Consuming Lifestyle: Commodity Capitalism and Transformations in Gay Identity”
Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism, ed. Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé and Martin F. Manalansan (New York: New York University Press), 134-45
2017
“An Interview with Lois Weaver”
States of Devotion: Religion, Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, Special Issue of Emisférica 13.1
2012
“Everson’s Children”
The Immanent Frame, an online publication of the Social Science Research Council (May). Online.
2009
“Religious and Sexual Freedoms Are Not Opposed”
co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen. The Immanent Frame, an online publication of the Social Science Research Council (July). Online.
2009
“Pioneering Performativity: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Remembered”
The Chronicle Review/The Chronicle of Higher Education (8 May): B14-B15
2003
“Why Sodomy Statutes Violate Religious Freedom”
co-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen. Belief.net. (26 Mar.) Online.