University of Wisconsin–Madison

Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”

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Elvehjem Building, Room L140

This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities.

Woman with black hair stands against a wall looking at the camera with a slight smile. She is wearing a black shirt with white birds and has a small necklace with a yellow stone.

Sianne Ngai is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Ugly Feelings (2005) and Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012), winner of the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize. Her most recent book is Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), which was shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Book Prize, co-winner of the ASAP Book Prize, and a Literary Hub Book of the Year. Ngai is currently working on a book about the affective dimensions of dialectical thinking.