Ngai, Sianne

Sianne Ngai () is an American cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar, and is a professor at the University of Chicago. Ngai has published the books Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012), and Ugly Feelings (2005), both released by Harvard University Press. Sections of both books have been translated into Swedish, Italian, German, Slovenian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. After her book Theory of the Gimmick was published in 2020, she was called "the most influential literary theorist of her time" in a feature on her work in The Chronicle of Higher Education, and "a star literary theorist" by Bookforum.