What Queer Theory Knows About the Couple

The Speakers

S. Pearl Brilmyer is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century English literature, the history & philosophy of science, & queer theory. She recieved her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. She is the author of The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism (forthcoming 2021 from the University of Chicago Press) as well as articles on George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Darwin, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, among other nineteenth-century thinkers.

Filippo Trentin teaches courses in Italian culture and film studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 2014, and since then he held academic positions in Germany and the USA. His research lies at the intersection of 20th-century Italian literature and cinema, queer studies and film theory, and has published articles on authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Walter Benjamin. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Rome and the Margins of Modernism. And with S. Pearl Brilmyer and Zairong Xiang, he is the editor of “The Ontology of the Couple,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, from which he and Pearl will speak.

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