Eva Illouz is Professor of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Visiting Professor at Princeton University and Northwestern University. Her previous books include Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism and Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. Her book Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery won the Best Book Award of the American Sociological Association, Culture section, in 2005.