Catherine Liu

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Catherine Liu (born 1964) is an American cultural theorist and author whose areas of research include sinophone cinema, French literature, Critical Theory, identity politics, and visual arts.

Known for her critique of the professional–managerial class (PMC), she has been featured on a range of political podcasts, including Chapo Trap House., The Jacobin Show, and Bungacast (twice) , as well as in the LA Review of Books , and she is cited widely in the press.

Main research contributions

Her research and teaching focus on the intellectual history and formation of cultural criticism, the history of the Professional-managerial class, psychoanalytic theory, the political economy of cultural revolutions, and the work of the Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin. She has also published on various topics in art criticism, museum history, and cultural politics.

Her most recent book, an influential denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism, is called Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class ([University of Minnesota Press], 2020) . It has been reviewed widely , , , . Virtue Hoarders is an unapologetically polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits, arguing that the PMC stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations to abet an individualist path to a better world. In 2011, she published The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique with the University of Iowa Press which addresses the abuse of populist mistrust of elites and its relationship to anti-intellectualism in American cultural politics. In 2000, she published Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton with the University of Minnesota Press.

She is also co-editor of The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road ([University of Of Minnesota Press], 2007), as well as the author of a novel, Oriental Girls Desire Romance (published by Kaya Press) in 2012

Education and career

Catherine Liu earned her BA from Yale and her PhD from CUNY Graduate Center. She taught at CalArts, the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Bard College before accepting a position at the University of California, Irvine.

Catherine Liu is professor in the Departments of Film and Media Studies/Visual Studies, Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine, where she also served as director of the UCI Humanities Center. As President of the Western Humanities Alliance, she edited a special issue of the Western Humanities Review (2016) on the topic of Prestige . For several years she organized a project about urban history and planned communities .

External links

• [1] UCI Faculty Profile
• [2] Twitter
• [3] UC Irvine interview
• [4] Catherine Liu on Chapo Trap House
• [5] Catherine Liu on The Jacobin Show
• [6] Bungacast ft Catherine Liu
• [7] Interview re Virtue Hoarders
• [8] Kaya Press
• [9] How to Live in Irvine
• [10] Cambridge Companion to Lacan

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