Sianne ngai bio

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.

She joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in fall 2017.

Sianne ngai bio

Ngai earned her B.A. from Brown University in 1993 and her Ph.D from Harvard in 2000.^[1]

Ngai has published the books Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012), and Ugly Feelings (2005), both released by Harvard University Press.

Sections of both books have been translated into Swedish, Italian, German, Slovenian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean.^[2] Her most recent manuscript is called Theory of the Gimmick.

Critical theory

Ngai studies the emotional gaps, contradictions, and negativities in literature, film, and theoretical writing in order to