# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lauren-berlant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:36:47.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lauren-berlant"
name: "Lauren Berlant"
slug: "lauren-berlant"
description: "Lauren Gail Berlant was an American scholar, cultural theorist, and author who is regarded as \"one of the most esteemed and influential literary and cultural critics in the United States.\" Berlant was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago, where they taught from 1984 until 2021. Berlant wrote and taught about issues of intimacy and belonging in popular culture, in relation to the history and fantasy of citizenship."
tagline: "American academic and author (1957–2021)"
gender: "non-binary"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-10-31"
deathDate: "2021-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.749106666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Лорън Берлант"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lauren Berlant"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Berlant"
    title: "Lauren Berlant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Berlant"
    title: "Lauren Berlant"
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    title: "Lauren Berlant"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump