Leigh Claire La Berge

Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art and Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary. Her most recent book is Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke (Haymarket, 2025). Her writing has appeared in Texte zur Kunst, n+1, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.