Lauren Berlant | Academic Influence

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Lauren Berlant

Sociology

#327

World Rank

#411

Historical Rank

#155

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Gender Studies

#12

World Rank

#12

Historical Rank

#4

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Lauren Berlant

Anthropology

#977

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#1315

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#492

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Lauren Berlant's Degrees

PhD English Cornell University
Masters English Cornell University
Bachelors English Oberlin College

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According to Wikipedia, Lauren Gail Berlant was an American scholar, cultural theorist, and author who is regarded as "one of the most esteemed and influential literary and cultural critics in the United States." Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they taught from 1984 until 2021. Berlant wrote and taught issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of citizenship.

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Lauren Berlant's Published Works

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Published Works

The Affect Theory Reader (2009) (1599)
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (2008) (772)
Intimacy: A Special Issue (1998) (548)
The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill (1993) (503)
The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times* (2016) (330)
The queen of America goes to Washington city : essays on sex and citizenship (1997) (278)
Precarity Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Bojana Cvejić, Isabell Lorey, Jasbir Puar, and Ana Vujanović (2012) (211)
Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promesse and Rosetta (2007) (155)
On the Case (2007) (125)
Thinking about Feeling Historical (2008) (119)
The female complaint (2008) (113)
Medium Theory (2009) (111)
A PROPERLY POLITICAL CONCEPT OF LOVE: Three Approaches in Ten Pages (2011) (104)
Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin (2015) (88)
Comedy Has Issues (2017) (86)
Critical Multiculturalism (1992) (68)
Affect in the End Times: A Conversation with Lauren Berlant (2012) (64)
Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event (2008) (60)
Trauma and ineloquence (2001) (51)
Critical Inquiry, Affirmative Culture (2004) (50)
Cruel Optimism: On Marx, Loss and the Senses (2007) (49)
'68, or Something (1994) (43)
Race, Gender, and Nation in "The Color Purple" (1988) (34)
Humorlessness (Three Monologues and a Hairpiece) (2017) (33)
The Female Woman: Fanny Fern and the Form of Sentiment (1991) (26)
Collegiality, Crisis, and Cultural Studies. (1997) (22)
Introduction: What Does It Matter Who One Is? (2007) (15)
Neither monstrous nor pastoral, but scary and sweet: Some thoughts on sex and emotional performance in Intimacies and What Do Gay Men Want? (2009) (15)
6 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Notes on Diva Citizenship (2020) (9)
A Momentary Anesthesia of the Heart (2015) (6)
Introduction: The Intimate Public Sphere (2020) (6)
Fancy-Work and Fancy Foot-Work: Motives for Silence in Washington Square (1987) (5)
The Hundreds, observation, encounter, atmosphere, and world-making (2019) (5)
Eve Sedgwick, Once More (2009) (4)
Affective Assemblages: Entanglements & Ruptures—An Interview with Lauren Berlant (2017) (4)
Hard Feelings: Stephanie Brooks (2008) (3)
Book Review:Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Janice Radway (1987) (3)
On taking the affective turn: interview with Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Deborah Gould (2022) (2)
Transformations and challenges in politics, teaching, art and writing: an interview with Lauren Berlant (2013) (2)
She’s Having an Episode: Patricia Williams and the Writing of Damaged Life (2018) (2)
Cruising Veganism (2015) (2)
“Intensity is a signal, not a truth”: An interview with Lauren Berlant (2018) (2)
The Compulsion to Repeat Femininity: Landscape for a Good Woman and The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (2008) (2)
Couplets (2019) (1)
The Public Sphere. Present Tense@@@The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship@@@Uncivil Rites: American Fiction, Religion, and the Public Sphere (1999) (1)
Book Review:Sentimental Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 Jane Tompkins (1988) (1)
Some stories, more scenes (2022) (1)
A Momentary Anesthesia of the Heart (2014) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2009) (0)
Books Received and Short Notices (2001) (0)
A Dark , Inner Life and a Society in Crisis : Nina Bouraoui ’ s Standard (2019) (0)
Cultural Struggle and Literary History: African-American Women's Writing (1990) (0)
Structures of Unfeeling: Mysterious Skin (2015) (0)
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia [CHAPTER 6] (2021) (0)
Making History@@@Hawthorne & History: Defacing It@@@Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition & Revolution@@@The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life@@@The Office of "The Scarlet Letter" (1993) (0)
“It's Not the Tragedies That Kill Us, It's the Messes”: Femininity, Formalism, and Dorothy Parker (2008) (0)
Book Review: Akane Kanai, Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture: Managing Affect, Intimacy and Value (2020) (0)
THE COLLOQUY OF LITTLE BOOKS (2022) (0)
Dear journal of visual culture (2009) (0)
PLAYLISTS: Cinematic Anthropology (2014) (0)
“ Permeable We ! ” affect and the ethics of Intersubjectivity in eve Sedgwick ’ s a Dialogue on love (2012) (0)
LOVE IN A HOPELESS PLACE CRUEL OPTIMISM (2012) (0)

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