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.
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Medieval Bodies: Integrity, Rupture and Metamorphosis (Ordinary) |
This course focuses on the body in the Middle Ages as a site where different discourses were played out, a symbolic space that could be figured as either whole and integral, or unstable and unpredictable. The image of the body in medieval European cultures was open to the influence of ideology, politics, religion, and gender hierarchies, and while often presented in terms of oppositions: human and animal, body and spirit, male and female. Credit Level: 9 Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate |
Medieval Men and Masculinities |
This course introduces students to the study of medieval men and masculinities. The course focuses on a series of primary sources from the tenth to the twelfth centuries including Scandinavian sagas; chivalric romances; monastic histories and medieval letter collections. The course examines constructions and representations of medieval masculinities. Over the last twenty years there has developed considerable academic interest in this subject and students will be expected to engage fully with this historiography. |
Meryl Kenny |
Meryl is Head of Politics and International Relations and Professor of Gender and Politics in the School of Social and Political Science. She researches, teaches and consults on gender (in)equality in politics, with a focus on political parties and parliaments. Current research projects include work on violence against women in local politics; the quality of women’s political representation; and gender- and diversity-sensitive parliaments. |
Metropolitan Modernities (Postgraduate) |
This course will introduce students to the various ways in which cities around the world have been imagined, experienced and represented, enabling students to explore the inter-relationship between modernity and urban environments through twentieth-century and contemporary literature and film. This course is jointly taught with undergraduate students. This team-taught course will introduce students to the various ways in which cities around the world have been imagined, experienced and represented. |
Michelle O'Toole |
The work experiences of bisexual workers. At its broadest, my research is about people’s lived experiences of their work and workplaces. More specifically, my interests are organizational control, individual and occupational identities, and the social construction of meaning in organizations. |
Migration: social origins and social consequences |
This course examines sociological perspectives on the causes and consequences of migration as a social process, with the emphasis mainly on international migration. Key concepts in the social scientific study of migration are discussed and we examine how other key areas of sociological interest (such as gender, the family, religion) may be related to migration. SCQF Credits: 20 Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: UG4 |
Mihaela Mihai |
Dr Mihaela Mihai (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at Edinburgh. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought. Her research interests cut across political theory, philosophy, aesthetics and social theory. Between 2015-2020, she led a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant project entitled: Illuminating the ‘Grey Zone’: Addressing Complex Complicity in Human Rights Violations. |
Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 |
The course will focus on four major themes: orthodox school and new media; urbanism and marketable art; foreign stimuli, and defining modernity. A variety of materials examined will include: traditional ink painting of various popular subjects, metal and stone studies, archaic calligraphy and seal carving, early photography, rubbing, lithography, pictorials on printed matters, newspaper illustration, colonial architecture, posters for calendar, theatre and the early cinema. |
Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose (Postgraduate) |
Modern ideas of 'Victorian values' depend upon clichés and distortions of Victorian ideas of love: reverence for the nuclear family combined with prudishness and prurience; marriage plots, covered table-legs and scandal sheets publishing the dirty secrets of the divorce courts. This course offers students the opportunity to discover the complex and diverse forms of Victorian interpersonal relationship, through close examination of a range of poetry, prose and drama. |
Modern Poetry: 1922-1927 |
This course examines key publications from the golden age of High Modernist poetry. We will look at individual collections by key British and American poets of the time. Though scanning only five years, from 1922 to 1927, the course includes some of the most renowned and influential poets and poetry books of the twentieth century. |