Sianne Ngai is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and the College at the University of Chicago. She holds BA degrees in semiotics, English literature, and the history of art and architecture from Brown University, a PhD in English and American literature from Harvard University, and an honorary doctorate in humanities from the University of Copenhagen. A preeminent affect theorist, Ngai’s work focuses on the aesthetics of consumption—the forms, feelings, and judgments that have come to characterize life under late capitalism. She is the author of Ugly Feelings (Harvard, 2005), Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Harvard, 2012), which won the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize, and Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (The Belknap Press, 2020), a Christian Gauss award finalist. Ngai has held fellowships from the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, American Council of Learned Societies, The Huntington Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center. She has also taught at Stanford University, University of California–Los Angeles, the Cornell School for Criticism and Theory, and the Southern California Institute for Architecture.