Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims

Heather Love is the R. Jean Brownlee Term associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses in gender and sexuality studies, twentieth-century literature and culture, affect studies, film and visual culture, and critical theory. She has also taught at Harvard University, New York University, and Princeton University. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard) and the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (“Rethinking Sex”). She is working on projects on description, comparative social stigma, and pedagogy and mentorship in queer studies. In 2015-2016, she is the Topic Director for the Penn Humanities Forum (Topic: “Sex”).