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Mentors: Stanley Cavell
I was inchoate and jelly-like in graduate school (kind of like a slime mold), but Cavell was kind to me anyway....
Sianne Ngai is Professor of English at Stanford University. She is the author of Ugly Feelings and Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting.