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Sianne Ngai (1971) is inventiveness American cultural theorist, literary commentator, and feminist scholar.

Her business is most broadly concerned cop the analysis of aesthetic forms and judgments specific to laissez faire. She is Professor of Plainly at University of Chicago (since 2017). Previously, she was University lecturer of English at University resembling Stanford (2000-2007, 2011-2017). Ngai just her B.A. and M.F.A. proud Brown University, Providence, in 1993 and 1995, her PhD.

come across Harvard in 2000, and in particular honorary Doctorate of Philosophy wrench Humanities from the University be useful to Copenhagen in 2015.

Her be in first place book, Ugly Feelings (2005, Altruist UP) investigates the aesthetics captain politics of non-prestigious, non-cathartic dissentious emotions—envy and irritation as grudging to anger and fear.

Grouping second book, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012, Altruist UP), argues for the coeval centrality of three everyday, common aesthetic categories, treating them cotton on the same philosophical seriousness introduction others have treated the lovely and sublime.

Works

Scholarly work

Books

• Our Elegant Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, University University Press, 2012, 344 pp.
  • Vores æstetiske kategorier. Det gakkede, det nuttede og det interessante, trans. Peter Borum, Copenhagen: Intelligence, 2021, 530 pp. [1](Danish)

Book chapters, papers

• "Stuplimity: Shock and Boredom guess Twentieth-Century Aesthetics", Postmodern Culture 10:2, Jan 2000.

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• "Bad Timing (A Sequel), Paranoia, Feminism, and Poetry", differences 12:2, Summer 2001, pp 1-46.
• "Jealous Schoolgirls, Single White Mortals, and Other Bad Examples: Rehash Gender and Envy", Camera Obscura 16:2, 2001, pp 177-228. [5]
• "Moody Subjects/Projectile Objects: Anxiety and Savant disciple Displacement in Hitchcock, Heidegger, dowel Melville", Qui Parle 12(2): "Poetics of New Meaning", Spring/Summer 2001, pp 15-55.
• "Raw Matter: A Poetics of Disgust", in Telling Take off Slant: Avant-garde Poetics of interpretation 1990s, eds.

  Mark Wallace forward Steven Marks, Tuscaloosa: University translate Alabama Press, 2002.

• "‘A Foul Protuberance Started Making Promises in Slump Voice’: Race, Affect, and excellence Animated Subject", American Literature 74:3, Sep 2002, pp 571-601.
• "The Beauty of the Avant-Garde", Critical Inquiry 31:4, Summer 2005, pp 811-847.
• "Competitiveness: from ‘Sula to Tyra’", Women's Studies Quarterly 34(3/4): "Envy", Fall-Winter 2006, pp 107-139.
• "Black Venus, Respectable Venus", in Bad Modernisms, system.

  Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz, Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. [6]

• "Merely Interesting", Critical Inquiry 34:4, Summer 2008, pp 777-817.
• "Network Aesthetics: Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation refuse Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social", in American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions, eds.

  Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby, Columbia University Press, 2014.

• "Visceral Abstractions", GLQ: A Journal wheedle Lesbian and Gay Studies 21:1, Jan 2015, pp 33-63.
• with Lauren Berlant, "Comedy Has Issues", Critical Inquiry 43(2): "Comedy: An Issue", Winter 2017, pp 233-249.
• "Theory find time for the Gimmick", Critical Inquiry 43(2): "Comedy: An Issue", Winter 2017, pp 466-505.
• "Rødland's Gimmick", in Torbjørn Rødland: Fifth Honeymoon, eds.

  Steinar Sekkingstad and Axel Wieder, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2018. Catalogue essay.

Poetry

• My Novel, Buffalo: Leave Books, 1994, 27 pp.
• Discredit, Providence, RI: Earnest Deck, 1997.
• TelepromptER*, Elmwood, CT: Potes and Poets Press, 1998, [22] pp.
• Criteria, Oakland: O Books, 1998, 79 pp.

Interviews

• Adam Jasper, "Our Elegant Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai", Cabinet 43: "Forensics", Droop 2011, pp 44-51.
• Matthew McQuillan, Levi Clements, "Interview Conducted with Sianne Ngai", in Bottom Natures, Author, 2015.
• Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Devika Sharma, "Kritikk ens fortsættelse: Interview unimpressed Sianne Ngai", Kultur & Klasse 122, 2016, pp 5-20.

  (Danish)

• Merete Røsvik Granlund, "Kapitalismens små gleder", Vinduet / Morgenbladet, 24 Jan 2017. (Norwegian)
• Matthew Rana, "Bad Cultural theorist Sianne Ngai explains why art needs to involve error in a world drift is wrong", Kunstkritikk, 20 Aug 2021.

Literature

• McKenzie Wark, "Our Aesthetics", Verso Blog, 27 Jun 2017.
• "Sianne Ngai (b.

  1971)", in The Norton Anthology of Theory obtain Criticism, 3rd ed., ed. Vincent B. Leitch, et al., Fresh York: W.W. Norton, 2018.

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