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Lily Scherlis is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the University of Chicago's English program. Her research explores the intersection of personality, economic value, and aesthetic value in 20th and 21st-century cultural production. She investigates topics such as the cultural history of social science, psychoanalysis, ethnography, oral history, self-help literature, media studies, and the sociology of cultural production.
Her writing has been published in Parapraxis, The Baffler, The Drift, The Guardian, Cabinet Magazine, and Post45 Contemporaries, among others. She has also produced video art and performance work featured at the Renaissance Society, daadgalerie, and the Smart Museum of Art. From 2020–2023, she served as Nonfiction Editor at Chicago Review, and currently teaches literary criticism. Her work is accessible at lilyscherlis.com.
