Introduction to Nonhuman Encounters: Animals, Objects, Affects, and the Place of Practice

ABSTRACT

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.

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Katie Gentile

Katie Gentile, Ph.D., is Professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). She is the author of Creating Bodies: Eating Disorders as Self-destructive Survival and The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies, in Psychoanalysis and Cultures, both from Routledge. She the editor of the Routledge book series Genders & Sexualities in Minds & Culture and a co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She is on the faculty of New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Ann Pellegrini

Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D., is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (NYU). She served as Director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality from 2008 to 2017. Her books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (co-written with Janet R. Jakobsen). Her most recent book—“You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths About LGBT Life and People (co-written with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico)—was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Nonfiction. She co-edits the Sexual Cultures series at New York University Press and is a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City.