Thinking with Lauren Berlant

Hester Baer · Ervin Malakaj · Simone Pfleger · Carrie Smith

May 2027 · University of Alberta

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Lauren Berlant transformed how we think about attachment, emotion, sexuality, and ordinary life. Their interventions have given scholars across disciplines new language for understanding why people stay bound to worlds that diminish them, and what politics looks like when understood through the body and the emergent present. Thinking with Lauren Berlant is the first edited collection to reflect on Berlant’s oeuvre since their death in 2021. Organized around key themes in Berlant’s critical lexicon, the contributions trace these themes as living practice for personal, political, and intellectual lives of scholars, artists, and humans. This remarkable collection will resonate with scholars across feminist and queer studies, affect theory, and cultural criticism: anyone invested in what thinking with others makes possible.

Contributors: Hester Baer, Claudia Breger, Ann Cvetkovich, Kyle Frackman, Mary Hennessy, Olivia Landry, Ervin Malakaj, Adrienne N. Merritt, Anna M. Parkinson, Simone Pfleger, Shoshana Schwebel, Cynthia Shin, Carrie Smith, Lauren Shizuko Stone, Simone Stirner, Brangwen Stone, and Shannon Walsh.

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Hester Baer is Professor of German Studies and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ervin Malakaj is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Simone Pfleger is Associate Professor of Gender and Queer Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Carrie Smith is Vice-Provost (Access, Community and Belonging) and Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Hester Baer is Professor of German Studies and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ervin Malakaj is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Simone Pfleger is Associate Professor of Gender and Queer Studies at the Un...

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