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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| Name | Details |
|---|---|
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. |
Modernism and the Market |
This course explores the complexities of modernist writers' engagements with the capitalist marketplace. A traditional view of modernist art understands it as antithetical to the brute, mechanical diktats of commodity culture. This course aims to qualify this position by foregrounding the ambivalence that surrounds modernist encounters with the market. |
Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia |
Southeast Asia is home to almost a quarter of the global Muslim population. This course will explore the diverse manifestations of Islam among Southeast Asian people who speak a myriad of languages and who belong to distinct national, ethnic, and racial groups. We will learn how Islam plays a crucial role in the development of Southeast Asian history, religion, politics, arts, and societies. We will critically analyse the impacts of Islamic beliefs and values on social and cultural practices, and the formation of nations, communities, and identities. |
Nacim Pak-Shiraz |
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran, and Head of Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Nacim has also curated a number of film festivals in Edinburgh, and has been a jury member and speaker at several international film festivals in the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iran. Her research focuses on cinema and visual culture in the Middle East, particularly Iran. |
Natasha Fricker |
Natasha (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh (matriculated 2021). |