Panel: Dr Alex Brostoff Dr Alice Parrinello Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell Dr Wannes Dupont (chair) Queering tends to reject stable conceptions of sexual and gender identity in favour of deep thinking about methods, methodologies, theories and epistemologies. Queer perspectives provide the opportunity to adapt and reclaim research methods that may reflect a heteronormative, privileged or hegemonic bias. These creative and transformative possibilities can also enable a critical reflexive engagement with understanding and theorising queer lives and politics. This discussion brings together researchers in literature, film, theatre and digital art to explore the ways in which queering can enrich contemporary scholarship in the arts and beyond, and the role of trans in queer/ing research. The event will be followed by a drinks reception. This LGBT+ History Month event is supported by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and GENDER.ED. Accessibility: This event will take place at IASH, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW. Please see a map here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/location The Seminar Room is on the first floor, and unfortunately IASH does not have a lift. If you have mobility issues and would like to discuss access, please contact iash@ed.ac.uk as soon as possible. Biographies Our panel are all 2024-25 Postdoctoral Fellows at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh: Alex Brostoff (they/them) is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College, where they are affiliated faculty in Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and the Latinx Studies Concentration. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator, their work converges at the crossroads of genre-hybrid literatures, literary and critical theory, and trans and queer cultural production in modern and contemporary hemispheric American studies. Their first book, Unruly Relations: A Critical Reframing of Autotheory, is under advance contract with Columbia University Press. They are also the co-editor of two volumes: Autotheories (The MIT Press, 2025) and Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical (Fordham University Press, under advance contract), as well as the co-editor of “Autotheory,” a special issue of ASAP/Journal (2021) and “Trans Literatures,” a special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies (2025). They have translated a range of works from Spanish and Portuguese, including Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak’s Life Is Not Useful (Polity Press, 2023) and Ancestral Future (Polity Press, 2024). Their scholarship and translations have appeared in ASAP/Journal, Critical Times, Synthesis, Dibur, and South Atlantic Quarterly, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. They received their PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. Alice Parrinello (she/her) was recently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford, investigating postcolonial and environmental films for the Wellcome-Trust funded project “After the End” in collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFI). She completed her PhD from the University of Oxford in 2024 with a thesis on the films and plays by Sicilian director Emma Dante through the lens of queer theory. Alice's research engaged with questions of temporality, spectrality, kinship, ecofeminism, and homonationalism in Dante's works and argued that a queer and Southern epistemology is taking place. Her published work includes articles that have appeared in gender/sexuality/Italy, Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies, and Simultanea: A Journal of Italian Media and Pop Culture, among others. Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell (they/them) is a researcher, writer and artist. They completed their PhD in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2024, with a thesis on British trans cultural production and trans theory in the 1990s. Their PhD combined historical and theoretical approaches to demarcate this as a period of radical practice and epistemic change, and to argue that the difficulty of thinking trans in the present originates with the political horizons of the 1990s. Informed by their creative work, Evelyn’s research attempts to develop strategies of trans theorising and practice that challenge the foreclosure of gender transition as material reality. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in British Art Studies, world picture journal, Art Monthly, and Cambridge Literary Review, amongst others. Evelyn is also the author of Memoirs of a Child Plot Hole: How to Escape Yourself Without Even Trying, a work of experimental fiction published in 2022 by Sticky Fingers Publishing. Their work has been shown, performed, read at TACO!, Kaunas Artists’ House, Auto Italia, Kupfer Project and Kingsgate Project Space. Chair: Wannes Dupont (he/him) is Lecturer in History of Sexuality at the University of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of History at Yale-NUS College in Singapore after postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and for the Flemish Research Foundation at the University of Antwerp. His work, publications and teaching primarily concern the European and global sexual pasts, queer history, reproductive politics, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion. He is also Associate Director of GENDER.ED, the University of Edinburgh's university-wide platform of the promotion of teaching and research on genders and sexualities.
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