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 |
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Postcolonial African Literature in Portuguese |
This course will introduce major topics in Lusophone African Literature and Culture from the colonial period (still under Portuguese rule) until Cape Verde, Angola and Mozambiqueżs independence between 1974 and 1975. A wide-ranging selection of novels and short stories will be studied in the context of historical and political events. Particular attention will be paid to the following themes: nation-building, colonialism and post-colonialism; race and regionalism; gender and sexuality; revolution and ideology. |
Postcolonial Writing |
This course will introduce students to some of the key texts and critical debates within postcolonial studies, ranging from the colonial fiction of E.M. Forster and Rudyard Kipling to contemporary novels (from Africa, South Asia, and the U.S.); the dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson; and the British-Asian television comedy series Goodness Gracious Me. Primary texts will be explored with reference to a range of key terms and topics including (inter alia) orientalism, counter-discourse, mimicry, nationalism, ethnicity and subjectivity, diaspora, language, the body. |
Premodern Textiles in Europe |
This course investigates textile as a medium in the premodern period. The first half of the course is devoted to materials and techniques. All phases of textile production from the cultivation and exchange of raw materials to the spinning and use of threads in weaving and embroidery will be studied. Special attention will be paid to the communities and networks that grew up around textile making and trade. The latter half of the course is given over to examination of specific case studies. |
Print and Gender Rebellion in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 |
The first age of mass media, created by the printing press, led to a revolution in how gender was seen, portrayed, and understood in the early modern world. This course will examine people in early modern Europe who refused to conform to gender norms side-by-side with the media they created and that created them in return. It will show how their gender rebellion was enabled by the material realities of the formation and distribution of print. Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Professional Development (MBA) |
This skills development based course is designed to help full-time MBA participants enhance their leadership capability and professional competence as well as their potential to develop strong employability skills and successfully pitch for senior executive roles in a range of organisations. |
Queens, Heiresses and Lords: Women Making Medieval Scotland |
Elite women played important roles within the Scottish political community and on a wider, European stage, even if narratives of the 'making of' medieval Scotland have tended to foreground male actors. Throughout this course, students will carefully assess women's involvement in politics and aristocratic culture between c.1066 and c.1328, examining figures such as queen consorts, royal mothers and daughters, countesses and noblewomen. The course will be structured around weekly seminars which explore different arenas of royal and aristocratic life. |
Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender |
Spatialising Sexuality and Gender: Queer and Trans Geographies¿ provides an opportunity for students to critically, and self-reflexively, consider how sexuality and gender inform, and unfold in, the everyday spaces we inhabit. |
Queering Health and Social Sciences: LGBTQIA+ Perspectives |
This course will introduce students to key theoretical, philosophical, and historical perspectives, issues and debates on queerness. At the heart of this programme is the view that emphasises a multiplicity of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and + (LGBTQIA+) experiences that are grounded within specific political and ideological contexts. The course uses a decolonial optic that challenges dominant Western centrism within queer studies. |
Radhika Govinda |
Radhika (she/her) is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and a former Director of GENDER.ED (2023-2025), the University's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she held a Lectureship in Gender Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. At Edinburgh, she is the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for her School, and an active member of the Centre for South Asian Studies. |
Rae Rosenberg |
Rae Rosenberg is a Lecturer in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Human Geography from York University and his work explores the contestations of living, and forms of resistance and belonging, amongst multiply-marginalized LGBTQ2+ people. His writing is published in journals such as Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Urban Studies, and Urban Geography. Rae's research interests include: |