Catherine Liu

Liu earned a B.A. from Yale College{{Cite web |title=Catherine Liu {{!}} University of California, Irvine - Academia.edu |url=https://uci.academia.edu/CatherineLiu/CurriculumVitae |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=uci.academia.edu}} and a Ph.D. from CUNY Graduate Center. She taught previously at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and Bard College before accepting a position at the University of California, Irvine. {{Cite web |title=UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System - Catherine Liu |url=https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5274 |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=www.faculty.uci.edu}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Liu |first=Catherine |date=2016 |title=The Values of Prestige – Western Humanities Review |url=https://www.westernhumanitiesreview.com/fall-2016-70-3/the-values-of-prestige/ |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=Western Humanities Review |language=en-US}} For several years she organized a project about urban history and planned communities.{{Cite web |title=How to Live in Irvine: Model Cities and Master Plans |url=https://uchri.org/awards/how-to-live-in-irvine-model-cities-and-master-plans/ |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=uchri.org}}

Her research and teaching targets 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.

In 2000, she published Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton with the University of Minnesota Press.Reviews of Copying Machines

• {{Cite journal |last=Forrest |first=Jennifer |date=2002 |title=Review of Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3190148 |journal=South Central Review |volume=19/20 |pages=161–163 |doi=10.2307/3190148 |jstor=3190148 |issn=0743-6831|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=Barbour |first=Charles |date=2003 |title=Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the - ProQuest |journal=Canadian Literature |language=en |pages=151–153 |access-date=}} 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. Her most recent book published in 2021, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class,Reviews of Virtue Hoarders
• {{Cite web |last=Moe |first=Lukas |date=2021-07-20 |title=Courtiers and Sycophants: Catherine Liu's Case Against the Professional Managerial Class |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/courtiers-and-sycophants-catherine-lius-case-against-the-professional-managerial-class/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en}}
• {{Cite web |last=Schansberg |first=Eric |date=August 13, 2021 |title=Under the thumb of the Professional Managerial Class |url=https://www.shelbynews.com/opinion/under-the-thumb-of-the-professional-managerial-class/article_40639ad7-7471-5ad5-987f-68109395a406.html |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Shelby News |language=en}}
• {{Cite web |last=Shullenberger |first=Geoff |date=2021-01-22 |title=The dictatorship of virtue |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-dictatorship-of-virtue |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en}} is a polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits. She argues that the class stands in the way of social justice and economic redistribution by promoting meritocracy, philanthropy, and other self-serving operations as an individualist path to a better world. She is also co-editor of the 2007 book, The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road, a reexamination of the legacy of Freud.{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191738010 |title=The dreams of interpretation : a century down the royal road |date=2007 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |author=Catherine Liu |isbn=978-0-8166-5413-0 |location=Minneapolis |oclc=191738010}}
  Reviewed by *{{Cite journal |last=Mosher |first=Michael R. (Mike) |date=2009 |title=Review of The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century down the Royal Road |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40540078 |journal=Leonardo |volume=42 |issue=5 |pages=467 |doi=10.1162/leon.2009.42.5.467a |jstor=40540078 |s2cid=191286784 |issn=0024-094X|url-access=subscription }}

• {{Cite book |last=Liu |first=Catherine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1235762749 |title=Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-4529-6645-8 |location=Minneapolis |oclc=1235762749}}
• {{Cite book |last=Liu |first=Catherine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/698170951 |title=Oriental Girls Desire Romance |date=2012 |publisher=Kaya Press |isbn=978-1-885030-90-0 |location=New York |oclc=698170951|edition=second}}
• {{Cite book |last=Liu |first=Catherine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754794536 |title=The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique |publisher=University of Iowa Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-1609380502 |location=Iowa City |oclc=712644571}}
• {{Cite book |last=Liu |first=Catherine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191818094 |title=Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton |date=2000 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-0-8166-9113-5 |location=Minneapolis |oclc=191818094}}

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• {{cite podcast |url=https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-fyxc4-fa8479 |title=The Worst Class ft. Catherine Liu |website=Bungacast |publisher= |host= |date=February 16, 2021 |time= |access-date=}}

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