Sianne Ngai is a cultural theorist, literary critic, and feminist scholar. She is the author of Ugly Feelings (2005) and Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012), winner of the Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize. Her most recent book is Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (2020), which was a Christian Gauss Book Prize finalist, winner of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize, and a Literary Hub Book of the Year. Ngai is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago.