Pearl Brilmyer & Filippo Trentin : Inessential Forms – Ruskin, Warburg, Focillon
Channel: pmilat
Date: 2018-06-23

* June 22, 2018 @ IUC Dubrovnik *

S. Pearl Brilmyer is assistant professor of English at the University
of Pennsylvania where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century European literature, sexuality, philosophy, and science. She is currently at work on a book project, The Science of Character: Matter, Form, and the Ends of Victorian Realism, and editing, along with Zairong Xiang and Filippo Trentin, a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies entitled “The Ontology of the Couple.”

Filippo Trentin is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the University
of Pennsylvania. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Warwick specializing in 20th century Italian cinema and literature. He has held academic positions as visiting professor at The Ohio State University and as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. His areas of research include  lm studies, queer theory and aesthetics. He is the co- editor of Rome: Postmodern Narrative
of a Cityscape (Routledge, 2016). Along with co-editing a special issue of GLQ with Pearl Brilmyer and Zairong Xiang, he is also working on a book entitled Rome and the Margins of Modernism.

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