Assistant Professor of English
- Novel
- Philosophical Texts & Intellectual History
- Scientific Texts and Ideas
- Africa & the Caribbean
- Britain
- Western Europe
- C19
- C20, including Modernism
- Deconstruction
- Ecocriticism/ Ecology
- Formalism/ Structuralism
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Psychoanalysis
- Race and Empire
- Rhetoric, Hermeneutics
Fields of Study
Research Interests:
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. She is the author of articles in PMLA, Representations, and Victorian Studies, and the editor, along with Zairong Xiang and Filippo Trentin, of a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies on "The Ontology of the Couple." Other areas of research include theories of will and drive in 19th-century German philosophy, questions of temporality in feminist and queer theory, and materialisms old and new.