
Lauren Berlant
Author · 13 books
Lauren Berlant was an English Professor at the University of Chicago, where they taught since 1984. Berlant received their Ph.D. from Cornell University. They wrote and taught on issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of citizenship.
Books

The Anatomy of National Fantasy
Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life
1991

Sexualidades transgresoras. Una antología de estudios queer
2002

Desire/Love
2012

Our Monica, Ourselves
The Clinton Affair and the National Interest
2001

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City
Essays on Sex and Citizenship
1997

The Hundreds
2019

Compassion
The Culture and Politics of an Emotion
2004

The Female Complaint
The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
2008
Sex in Public
1998

On the Inconvenience of Other People
2022

Cruel Optimism
2011

Intimacy
2000

Sex, or the Unbearable
2013