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.

“Putting German studies in conversation with Berlant’s work, Thinking with Lauren Berlant generates reflection on queer forms of relationality by confronting us with the importance of critical hope and creative futures in times of crisis.” Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder

• Introduction: Thinking with Lauren Berlant – Hester Baer, Ervin Malakaj, Simone Pfleger, Carrie SmithPart I: Fantasy/Genre1. Tracking Political Fantasy – Claudia Breger2. Siegfried Kracauer and Lauren Berlant on Fantasy, Realism, and the Waning of Genre – Mary Hennessy3. Berlant’s Queer Street: On Stevenson, Inquiry, and Interruption – Lauren Shizuko Stone4. Soliloquy and Soundtrack: A Desire/Love Playlist – Adrienne MerrittPart II: Ambivalence5. Ambivalence: Three Shades of Contradiction – Anna Parkinson6. A Startling Ethics of Ambivalence – Olivia Landry7. The Negative Sandpaper of Sociality: Thinking with Lauren Berlant on Ambivalence – Ann Cvetkovich8. Feeling Miserable with Lauren Berlant: A Series of Postpartum Complaints – Shoshana SchwebelPart III: Inconvenience9. On the (In)convenience of Our Machines – Cynthia Shin10. An Inconvenient Profession – Kyle Frackman11. The Mess of Solidarity – Brangwen StonePart IV: Non-Sovereign Relationality12. Slow Death as/and World-making – Simone Pfleger13. Soothing Aesthetics in Times of Crisis – Ervin Malakaj14. In Conversation with Lauren Berlant – Shannon Walsh15. Comedy and the Killjoy: Humor and Humorlessness in the Affective Lives of (Post-) Neoliberalism – Hester BaerPart V: Making Worlds16. Fantasy as Political Dreaming – Claudia Breger17. Work, or the Unbearable – Mary Hennessy18. Flourishing under Conditions of Crisis: Notes on Academic Leadership – Carrie Smith19. Unwriting the Discipline – Simone Stirner

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.

“Putting German studies in conversation with Berlant’s work, Thinking with Lauren Berlant generates reflection on queer forms of relationality by confronting us with the importance of critical hope and creative futures in times of crisis.” Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder

• Introduction: Thinking with Lauren Berlant – Hester Baer, Ervin Malakaj, Simone Pfleger, Carrie SmithPart I: Fantasy/Genre1. Tracking Political Fantasy – Claudia Breger2. Siegfried Kracauer and Lauren Berlant on Fantasy, Realism, and the Waning of Genre – Mary Hennessy3. Berlant’s Queer Street: On Stevenson, Inquiry, and Interruption – Lauren Shizuko Stone4. Soliloquy and Soundtrack: A Desire/Love Playlist – Adrienne MerrittPart II: Ambivalence5. Ambivalence: Three Shades of Contradiction – Anna Parkinson6. A Startling Ethics of Ambivalence – Olivia Landry7. The Negative Sandpaper of Sociality: Thinking with Lauren Berlant on Ambivalence – Ann Cvetkovich8. Feeling Miserable with Lauren Berlant: A Series of Postpartum Complaints – Shoshana SchwebelPart III: Inconvenience9. On the (In)convenience of Our Machines – Cynthia Shin10. An Inconvenient Profession – Kyle Frackman11. The Mess of Solidarity – Brangwen StonePart IV: Non-Sovereign Relationality12. Slow Death as/and World-making – Simone Pfleger13. Soothing Aesthetics in Times of Crisis – Ervin Malakaj14. In Conversation with Lauren Berlant – Shannon Walsh15. Comedy and the Killjoy: Humor and Humorlessness in the Affective Lives of (Post-) Neoliberalism – Hester BaerPart V: Making Worlds16. Fantasy as Political Dreaming – Claudia Breger17. Work, or the Unbearable – Mary Hennessy18. Flourishing under Conditions of Crisis: Notes on Academic Leadership – Carrie Smith19. Unwriting the Discipline – Simone Stirner

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.

“Putting German studies in conversation with Berlant’s work, Thinking with Lauren Berlant generates reflection on queer forms of relationality by confronting us with the importance of critical hope and creative futures in times of crisis.” Beverly Weber, University of Colorado Boulder

• Introduction: Thinking with Lauren Berlant – Hester Baer, Ervin Malakaj, Simone Pfleger, Carrie SmithPart I: Fantasy/Genre1. Tracking Political Fantasy – Claudia Breger2. Siegfried Kracauer and Lauren Berlant on Fantasy, Realism, and the Waning of Genre – Mary Hennessy3. Berlant’s Queer Street: On Stevenson, Inquiry, and Interruption – Lauren Shizuko Stone4. Soliloquy and Soundtrack: A Desire/Love Playlist – Adrienne MerrittPart II: Ambivalence5. Ambivalence: Three Shades of Contradiction – Anna Parkinson6. A Startling Ethics of Ambivalence – Olivia Landry7. The Negative Sandpaper of Sociality: Thinking with Lauren Berlant on Ambivalence – Ann Cvetkovich8. Feeling Miserable with Lauren Berlant: A Series of Postpartum Complaints – Shoshana SchwebelPart III: Inconvenience9. On the (In)convenience of Our Machines – Cynthia Shin10. An Inconvenient Profession – Kyle Frackman11. The Mess of Solidarity – Brangwen StonePart IV: Non-Sovereign Relationality12. Slow Death as/and World-making – Simone Pfleger13. Soothing Aesthetics in Times of Crisis – Ervin Malakaj14. In Conversation with Lauren Berlant – Shannon Walsh15. Comedy and the Killjoy: Humor and Humorlessness in the Affective Lives of (Post-) Neoliberalism – Hester BaerPart V: Making Worlds16. Fantasy as Political Dreaming – Claudia Breger17. Work, or the Unbearable – Mary Hennessy18. Flourishing under Conditions of Crisis: Notes on Academic Leadership – Carrie Smith19. Unwriting the Discipline – Simone Stirner