GENDER.ED Directory
Welcome to the GENDER.ED Directory. It brings together gender and sexualities studies researchers from across the University of Edinburgh, and gender and sexualities studies-related courses at undergraduate ordinary, honours, and postgraduate levels. With over 330 entries, the GENDER.ED Directory provides a comprehensive overview of the research and teaching being conducted at the University of Edinburgh. The Directory is designed to be used by prospective and current students and researchers, potential collaborators, and the wider community interested in gender and sexualities studies.
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Researchers found in the Directory range from our PhD and early career researchers to Professors. Within these profiles, you will find details of research interests, ongoing research projects, noteworthy gender and sexualities-related publications, and teaching activity. We hope these entries will enable researchers to connect with one another (across and beyond the institution), encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration.
Course entries on the Directory provide insight into the content taught in each course, the course’s credit level, and the year taken. Course entries provide a valuable resource to students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, assisting in navigating gender and sexualities studies pathways through their University programmes.
If you would like to be added to the Directory, please contact us at gender.ed@ed.ac.uk.
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Adam, Eve and LGBT+: Sex and Gender in the Hebrew Bible |
The seminar wants to give an introduction into the different ideas around sex and gender in the Hebrew Bible. It discusses matters such as the creation of man and woman, the connection of sexuality and male struggles for power and honour, laws about sexuality in the Pentateuch, and the use of the marriage metaphor for the relationship between Yhwh and Israel. Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: Year 3 Undergraduate |
Adolesence in Medieval Europe |
The historical study of adolescence is a relatively new field. Since the 1960s, medievalists have challenged the claim that a concept of adolescence emerged only in the eighteenth century, often turning to insights from other disciplines to help overturn many previous assumptions. This course explores both ideas and realties of adolescence in Europe between c.1000 and c.1300. By engaging with historical concepts such as life cycle, gender, masculinity, and identity, students will hone transferable skills in summarising and contextualising complex ideas and arguments. |
Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy (PG) |
This course examines in detail an advanced topic in Feminist Philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year and may be either contemporary or historical. The course may focus on an extended examination of a philosophical debate, such as pornography, objectification, the metaphysics of gender, or the relation between women and nature. Alternatively, the course may focus on a historical figure or set of figures in the feminist tradition, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollstonecraft, or Mary Astell. The course can cover a different 'special topic', which is dependent on the instructor. |
Advanced Topics in Feminist Philosophy (UG) |
This course examines in detail an advanced topic in Feminist Philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year and may be either contemporary or historical. The course may focus on an extended examination of a philosophical debate, such as pornography, objectification, the metaphysics of gender, or the relation between women and nature. Alternatively, the course may focus on a historical figure or set of figures in the feminist tradition, such as Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Wollstonecraft, or Mary Astell. The course can cover a different 'special topic' depending on the instructor. |
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra |
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics at Edinburgh University School of Law. She is also a member of the Wellcome Trust-funded Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, where she leads on the Centre themes Beyond Global and Beyond Sex. Dr. Ganguli-Mitra’s background is in bioethics, with a special interest in global bioethics, structural and gender justice. |
Aidan McGlynn |
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Aiswarya Jayamohan |
Aiswarya Jayamohan (they/them) is a PhD candidate at the Department of English literature in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Their doctoral project explores ‘bad’ forms of gendered and racialised relation – such as rudeness, precociousness, coldness, and embarrassment – in modernist literature. Their research interests span twentieth and twenty-first century British writing, gender and sexuality studies, trans* feminist methods, and modern aesthetics. |
Alexandra Smith |
Dr Alexandra Smith (PhD, SSEEES, UCL) is Reader in Russian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she has been teaching since 2007. |
Allyson Stack |
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Alysa Ghose |
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