Seventh Annual John Jacob Spector Lecture
The 麻豆传媒网站 English Department presents
The Seventh Annual John Jacob Spector Lecture
鈥�After the Good Life, an Impasse: Notes on the Cinema of Precarity鈥�
A public lecture by Lauren Berlant
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LAUREN BERLANT is the George M. Pullman Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Her wide-ranging scholarship and teaching focus on the legal and normative production of personhood in the U.S., national sentimentality and national fantasy in American literature and culture, and on the affective experiences of neoliberalism, social belonging, intimacy, and trauma. One of the most exciting and respected scholars on U.S. culture, Professor Berlant is the author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (Duke UP, 2008), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Duke UP, 1997), Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest, with Lisa Duggan (NYU Press, 2001), and The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life (Chicago, 1991). Her current book project is titled Cruel Optimism.