Sianne Ngai, “Theory of the Gimmick”

Event time: 
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), LC 317 See map
63 High St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Sianne Ngai is professor of English at Stanford University. She is author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Harvard University Press, 2012), winner of the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize, and Ugly Feelings (Harvard University Press, 2005). Ngai has taught at the Cornell School for Criticism and Theory and in 2014-15 was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. She received an honorary D. Phil in Humanities from the University of Copenhagen in 2015.

Open to: 
General Public

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