Sianne Ngai, Professor Primary Office: 460-417 At Stanford Since: 2000 Email: xngai@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Critical Methods: Readings in Feminist and Queer Criticism Senior Seminar: The Paranoid Imagination Publishing Workshop: The Article Degrees: B.A., Brown, 1993 Ph.D., Harvard, 2000 |
Sianne Ngai specializes in American literature, literary and cultural theory, and feminist studies. Her books are Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Harvard University Press, 2012), winner of a 2013 Ray and Pat Browne award from the PCA/ACA, and Ugly Feelings (Harvard University Press, 2005). Sections of both books have been translated into Swedish, Italian, German, and Slovenian. She is working on a new project on literary gimmicks and the intersection of technique and enchantment in the literature of twentieth-century capitalism, tentatively called (after a line from the poet George Oppen) The Sad Marvels. Ngai was a recipient of a 2007-08 Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and in 2014-15 will be a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, Germany. Currently a Contributing Editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, she will join the faculty at the Cornell School for Criticism and Theory in the summer of 2014. |
