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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Magnus Course

  • Britain
  • Ethnography
  • Mythology and folklore
  • Memory
  • Language and Identity
  • Gaelic Scotland
  • crofting
  • Environment
  • fishing
  • the sea

Making Men: The History of British Masculinity, c. 1700-1900

This course examines the history of masculinity in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Students will be introduced to key concepts and debates within the history of masculinity and gender and will consider how different sources and approaches have led historians to draw very different conclusions about the nature of British masculinity in different periods. By exploring two of these periods together, this course will identify the changes and continuities in how masculinity was idealised, critiqued, formed and experienced in Britain.

Man-Milliners and Militias: A History of Eighteenth-Century British Masculinity (Online)

From the restrained and polished Polite Man and the sensitive Man of Feeling, to the sartorially extravagant Macaroni and the 'husbands and wives' of Molly Houses, the eighteenth century was host to a wide, and often contradictory, array of masculine ideals, stereotypes and performances. So, what made a man in eighteenth-century Britain? How important were the cultural representations of masculinity, and how did individual men perceive and perform their maleness?

Marion Boulicault (She/They)

Marion Boulicault is a Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and also serves as the Director of Interdisciplinary Research and Community at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. She has a PhD in Philosophy from MIT and completed an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. 

Mariya Levitanus

Mariya is a scholar, queer activist, and psychotherapist from Kazakhstan. She earned her Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the University of Edinburgh in 2020. Her earlier research explored the everyday narratives of queer individuals in Kazakhstan, while her current work focuses on Russian queer and trans* migration to Central Asia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Marlies Kustatscher

Marlies Kustatscher (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Moray House School of Education and Sport.

Marta Kowalewska

My current research focuses on the invisibility of Roma women in feminism and nationalism studies. My research interests include:
  • gender and nationalism
  • Roma activism
  • feminisms and feminist theory
  • gender politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church

This course enables students to engage in depth with women writers in the Christian tradition from the years 200-1440 in their historical and theological contexts. Ten writers will be studied, from Perpetua of Carthage to Margery Kempe, covering the period from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire to Late Medieval Western Europe.

Mary Holmes

Professor Mary Holmes is Professor of Emotions and Society at the School of Social and Political Science. She joined the sociology subject area at Edinburgh in 2013.  As well as the sociology of emotions, Mary’s research interests include:
  • Intimate relationships
  • Gender
  • Feminism
  • Sexuality. 
She is currently researching how climate change is impacting on women’s reproductive choices.

Maryam Al-Hajri

Maryam AlHajri is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science. Her thesis is concerned with the systematic marginalisation and erasure of histories of different socio-political actors in Qatar (1950-60s). Her research interests include the formation of post-colonial states and theories of political sociology, marginality and subalternity, particularly in the context of the Arab Gulf States.