Lauren Berlant holds the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Her work has focused on a politics of affects and feelings in the U.S. nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is published, for instance, in her trilogy on national sentimentality – The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991), The Queen of America Goes to Washington City (1997), The Female Complaint (2008) – or in her publication Cruel Optimism (2011).
This is a cooperation of the Forschungsgruppe Gender and Politics/ipw lectures (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna), of the Gender Research Office/Gender Talks (University of Vienna), of the Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and of the Forschungsverbund Gender & Agency (University of Vienna).
Organization: Brigitte Bargetz (University of Vienna), Moira Hille (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Sushila Mesquita (University of Vienna)