 | Cruel Optimism Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship , both also published by Duke University Press, as well as The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life . She the editor of the books Intimacy ; Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion ; and (with Lisa Duggan) Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest . |
