Sianne Ngai (pronunciation ⓘ) is an American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. From 2000 to 2007 she was an Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University, from 2007-2011 an Associate Professor of English at UCLA, and from 2011 to 2017 Professor of English at Stanford University .

Ngai teaches courses in American literature, feminist and queer literary criticism, narrative poetics, and aesthetic theory. Recent courses at the University of Chicago include ENGL 20650: Junior Seminar: Passions, Emotions, Moods; ENGL 65550L: Henry James; and HUMA16100: Media Aesthetics (Text).

2024年2月5日 · Sianne Ngai is an Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Ngai’s first book, Ugly Feelings (2005, Harvard University Press), is considered a key work of affect theory for its focus on politically ambiguous, non-cathartic negative emotions—envy and irritation as opposed to anger and fear.

2005年2月28日 · Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, John Yau, and Bruce Andrews, among others, Ngai shows how art turns to ugly feelings as a site for interrogating its own suspended agency in the affirmative culture of a market society, where art is tolerated as essentially ...

Over the past fifteen years, Sianne Ngai has created a taxonomy of the aesthetic features of contemporary capitalism: the emotions it provokes, the judgements it elicits, and the technologies with which it simultaneously saves and takes up more of our time.

Sianne Ngai is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at University of Chicago. A cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar, her work is most broadly concerned with the analysis of aesthetic forms and judgments specific to capitalism.

Sianne Ngai (1971) is an American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. Her work is most broadly concerned with the analysis of aesthetic forms and judgments specific to capitalism. She is Professor of English at University of Chicago (since 2017).

Sianne Ngai Professor of English. Sianne Ngai teaches American literature, specializing in twentieth-century culture and theory, poetry, film studies, and feminist studies.

Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago: 1081 Followers, 49 Following, 20 Research papers. Research interests: Capitalism, Marxist theory, and Literature.

Sianne Ngai teaches American literature, specializing in twentieth-century culture and theory, poetry, film studies, and feminist studies.