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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Lisa Raeder |
Lisa Raeder is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, with a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from Stockholm University. Her research intersects the disciplinary fields of critical theory, gender studies and medical humanities, and her PhD project investigates the role of hormonal contraceptives in the production of gender and sexuality, and conceptions of health and the self. Since 2020. |
Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics |
Modernist Aesthetics is the semester 1 core course for the MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme. The course explores key texts and topics in modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century, alongside cultural, historical and intellectual contexts, and a range of critical and theoretical approaches. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate |
Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond |
This is the semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme. This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical theory with specific attention paid to questions of the politics of literary texts, the production of political identity through texts, and the contested questions of cultural politics through which texts are read. Topics to be covered include post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, sexual politics and cultural identity. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate |
Literature and Performance in Modern Japan |
This course aims to enable students to develop their understanding, appreciation and critical awareness of literature and performance in modern Japan. For students who have previously taken Introduction to Japanese Literature (ASST08053), Modern East Asian History A (ASST08042) or Society and Culture in Premodern East Asia (ASST08052), it offers the opportunity to build on the understanding of Japanese cultural identity they have acquired through reading key literary works. |
Liz Stanley |
Professor Liz Stanley is a Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science.
Her research interests include:
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Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art |
Renaissance art is often seen as the conceptual anchor for a conservative type of art history that focuses on great male artists and their revival of a classical past. This course uses recent research to challenge the idea, showing how old master painting can speak to current issues of sexual, gender and political identity. Focussing on different roles for women, we will investigate how visual culture promotes and challenges ideas of what it means to be female. We will look at women as archetypes of beauty, as wives, prostitutes, artists, patrons, poets and witches. |
Lotte Segal |
Dr Lotte Segal is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Science and the SPS Deputy Director of Research for Ethics. Her empirical focus is, first, Occupied Palestine, and second, the development of an anthropological vocabulary to speak about secondary trauma among kin as well as staff working with ameliorating the psychological effects of torture. Lotte’s research is animated by questions of violence, relatedness, everyday life, knowledge, as well as issues pertaining to gender and violence. |
Louise A. Jackson |
Louise Jackson is Professor of Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is concerned with histories of women and gender in modern Britain, as well as with:
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Louise Milne |
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Love in Religious and Philosophical Literature |
This course explores diverse understandings of love across different religious and philosophical traditions. We will discuss religious and philosophical approaches to the question of love, including how we understand the nature of love, how we can talk of love, how love relates to religious goals, how reason relates to emotion, how love is embodied and connected to gender and sexuality, and how notions of love vary across different global contexts. Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |