Josefa Ros Velasco is Postdoctoral Fellow at Complutense University of Madrid. She was Teaching Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and RCC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019). She holds an International Ph.D. in Philosophy (Excellent Program of Doctorate in Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid) as a scholar of the Spanish Ministry of Education (with Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2017).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on Contributorsemsp;Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studiesemsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velascoemsp;emsp;Part 1Boredom and Society1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginaryemsp;emsp;Elizabeth S. Goodstein2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalismemsp;emsp;Michael E. Gardiner3 Boredom: a Political Issueemsp;emsp;George García Quesada4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernityemsp;emsp;Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín and Carlos Fernando Álvarez González5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015emsp;emsp;Daniel Mainsemsp;emsp;Part 2Boredom and Literature6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnnoemsp;emsp;Christian Rafael Parreño Roldán7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner’s Comedy Leonce und Lenaemsp;emsp;Wolfram Malte Fues8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressuresemsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco and Nancy Provolt9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loeemsp;emsp;Martin Demant FrederiksenPart 3Boredom and Creativity10 The Art of Boring (Oneself)emsp;emsp;Jorge Andrés Espinoza Cáceres11 Perfect Boredom: From Disillusion to Creativityemsp;emsp;Sergio Velasco Caballero12 A Cartography of Boredom: Reading for Affectivity in Contemporary Poetryemsp;emsp;Kristiine Kikas13 Boredom and Institutional Critiqueemsp;emsp;Judy Freya Sibayanemsp;Postface Rhymed Reflections on Boredomemsp;emsp;Francisco Cardoso Gomes de MatosIndex

Josefa Ros Velasco is Postdoctoral Fellow at Complutense University of Madrid. She was Teaching Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and RCC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019). She holds an International Ph.D. in Philosophy (Excellent Program of Doctorate in Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid) as a scholar of the Spanish Ministry of Education (with Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2017).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on Contributorsemsp;Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studiesemsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velascoemsp;emsp;Part 1Boredom and Society1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginaryemsp;emsp;Elizabeth S. Goodstein2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalismemsp;emsp;Michael E. Gardiner3 Boredom: a Political Issueemsp;emsp;George García Quesada4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernityemsp;emsp;Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín and Carlos Fernando Álvarez González5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015emsp;emsp;Daniel Mainsemsp;emsp;Part 2Boredom and Literature6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnnoemsp;emsp;Christian Rafael Parreño Roldán7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner’s Comedy Leonce und Lenaemsp;emsp;Wolfram Malte Fues8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressuresemsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco and Nancy Provolt9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loeemsp;emsp;Martin Demant FrederiksenPart 3Boredom and Creativity10 The Art of Boring (Oneself)emsp;emsp;Jorge Andrés Espinoza Cáceres11 Perfect Boredom: From Disillusion to Creativityemsp;emsp;Sergio Velasco Caballero12 A Cartography of Boredom: Reading for Affectivity in Contemporary Poetryemsp;emsp;Kristiine Kikas13 Boredom and Institutional Critiqueemsp;emsp;Judy Freya Sibayanemsp;Postface Rhymed Reflections on Boredomemsp;emsp;Francisco Cardoso Gomes de MatosIndex

Josefa Ros Velasco is Postdoctoral Fellow at Complutense University of Madrid. She was Teaching Assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and RCC Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2019). She holds an International Ph.D. in Philosophy (Excellent Program of Doctorate in Philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid) as a scholar of the Spanish Ministry of Education (with Extraordinary Doctorate Award, 2017).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on Contributorsemsp;Introduction: Humanities Still Have a Say in Boredom Studiesemsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velascoemsp;emsp;Part 1Boredom and Society1 Boredom and the Disciplinary Imaginaryemsp;emsp;Elizabeth S. Goodstein2 The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalismemsp;emsp;Michael E. Gardiner3 Boredom: a Political Issueemsp;emsp;George García Quesada4 About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernityemsp;emsp;Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín and Carlos Fernando Álvarez González5 Too Much Time: Changing Conceptions of Boredom, Progress, and the Future among Young Men in Urban Ethiopia, 2003–2015emsp;emsp;Daniel Mainsemsp;emsp;Part 2Boredom and Literature6 Immersed in Boredom: the Architecture of Brisbane in Johnnoemsp;emsp;Christian Rafael Parreño Roldán7 The Presence of Literature: Georg Büchner’s Comedy Leonce und Lenaemsp;emsp;Wolfram Malte Fues8 Upper-Class Female Boredom in Marriage in 19th-Century Western Literature as a Manifestation of Socio-Cultural Pressuresemsp;emsp;Josefa Ros Velasco and Nancy Provolt9 Men Walking into Woods. Boredom, Nihilism, and the Characters of Erlend Loeemsp;emsp;Martin Demant FrederiksenPart 3Boredom and Creativity10 The Art of Boring (Oneself)emsp;emsp;Jorge Andrés Espinoza Cáceres11 Perfect Boredom: From Disillusion to Creativityemsp;emsp;Sergio Velasco Caballero12 A Cartography of Boredom: Reading for Affectivity in Contemporary Poetryemsp;emsp;Kristiine Kikas13 Boredom and Institutional Critiqueemsp;emsp;Judy Freya Sibayanemsp;Postface Rhymed Reflections on Boredomemsp;emsp;Francisco Cardoso Gomes de MatosIndex