Lauren Berlant

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Lauren Berlant (31 October 1957, Philadelphia - 28 June 2021, Chicago) was George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Her national sentimentality trilogy — The Anatomy of National Fantasy (Chicago, 1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (Duke, 1997), and The Female Complaint (Duke, 2008) — morphed into a quartet, with Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) addressing precarious publics and the aesthetics of affective adjustment in the contemporary U.S. and Europe. A co-editor of Critical Inquiry, they were also the editor of "Intimacy" (special issue of Critical Inquiry, 1998); Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (NYU Press, 2001, with Lisa Duggan); Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Routledge, 2004); "On the Case" (special issue of Critical Inquiry, 2007); and Reading Sedgwick (Duke, 2019). They blogged at Supervalent Thought and were also a founding member of the artist/activist group Feel Tank Chicago. [1]

Publications[edit]

  • Critical Inquiry 24(2): "Intimacy" (editor), Winter 1998; new ed. as Intimacy, University of Chicago Press, 2000, 432 pp. [2] [3] [4]
  • Venus Inferred (with Laura Letinsky), University of Chicago Press, 2000. Publisher.
  • Critical Inquiry 33(4): "On the Case" (editor), Summer 2007. [5]
  • Cruel Optimism, Duke University Press, 2011. Publisher. Special issue: Social Text.
    • El optimismo cruel, trans. Hugo Salas, intro. Cecilia Macón, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2020, 470 pp. Publisher. (Spanish)
    • Can ku de le guan zhu yi [残酷的乐观主义], Beijing: Zhong guo gong ren chu ban she (中国工人出版社), 2023, 427 pp. (Chinese)
    • Grausamer Optimismus, trans. jen theodor, ed. Çiğdem Inan, Berlin: b_books, 2024, 440 pp. (German)
  • Desire/Love, Punctum Books, 2012, 142 pp.
    • Deseo/Amor, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios de Género, 2022. (Spanish)
    • Begehren/Liebe, Berlin: Merve, 2023, 140 pp. (German)
    • Sexo, o lo insoportable. Deseo/Amor, Barcelona: Virus, 2024. Publisher. (Spanish)

Interviews, conversations[edit]

  • Andrew Hoberek, "Citizen Berlant: An Interview with Lauren Berlant", Minnesota Review 52-54, Duke University Press, Fall 2001, pp 127-140; repr. in Critics at Work, ed. Jeffrey J. Williams, New York: NYU Press, 2004. [6] [7]
  • Anna Lesley Poletti, Julie Rak, "The blog as experimental setting: an interview with Lauren Berlant", in Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online, eds. Anna Lesley Poletti and Julie Rak, University of Wisconsin Press, 2014, pp 259-272. [8]
  • Megan Boler, Elizabeth Davis, "On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould", Cultural Studies 36:3, 2022, pp 360-377. DOI.

Links[edit]

  • Blog, 2007-2019 (archived)
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