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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| Name | Details |
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Benjamin Bateman |
Benjamin Bateman is a Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
His research interests include:
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Bill Aird |
Dr Bill Aird is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. |
Black Feminist/Womanist Theology and Ethics |
This course introduces students to the work of Black feminist/womanist theologians and ethicists who invite us to critically examine traditional and/or orthodox theologies and religious ethics, by submitting them to the testimonies, queries and ethical demands that emerge from Black women's lived experiences. The course will involve the crossing of disciplinary boundaries as womanists delve into history, critical theories of race, gender and sexuality, sociological studies of class, and themes of colonialism and environmental destruction among others. |
Black Hydropoetics: The Sea in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture |
The course explores literature and music to examine the role of the ocean in counter-hegemonic discourses in Portuguese. The aim is to analyze and compare the strategies used by Luso-Afro-Brazilian authors to question Portuguese imperial representations traditionally associated with the sea. Discussions will engage with specific questions of nationality, borders, identity, race, migration, gender and sexuality, religion, language, hybridization, politics and the environment. This course will introduce major topics in Luso-Afro-Brazilian literature and culture. |
Bodies of Change: Gender, Sexuality and Medicine in France, 1852-1914 |
The course considers the representation of different bodies in French art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of the topics explored in this course include queer bodies, skin colour, bodies in surgery and intoxicated bodies. Gender, sexuality and medicine are the key themes underpinning the course. SCQF Credits: 20 Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: UG3 |
Body and Medicine in Ancient Rome |
The concept of the human body and its affections is at the core of current debates in Classical scholarship. The development of such a concept is the result of multiple social, political and ethical factors, and their evolution throughout history. The course will explore that evolution as expressed through the ancient theories of the body, positioning them within the context of ancient life, literature and thought in 1st century BCE-1st century CE Rome. |
Body in Literature |
The aim of this course is to introduce some of the most influential ways in which literary writing has depicted and explored the human body, and to explore such ideas as identity, gender, desire, sex, violence, beauty and monstrosity. The human body has been depicted in a wide variety of different ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct and a material encumbrance. |
Body, Identity and Technology |
The body is never an isolated entity, it extends and connects with other bodies, practices, experiences, technologies, human and non-human entities. In our lived, embodied experiences, technology (including digital technologies) has become an integral, vital part of our daily interactions. It is crucial to question and examine the ways emerging technologies are reshaping our understanding of self, gender, class, race, disability, illness, body image, and embodiment. |
Boundaries of the human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature |
This course focuses on the definition of the human self in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which notions of 'selfhood' and the human are perceived and explored in medieval literary texts. Medieval literature provided a space where philosophical, ideological and medical discourses about the body, gender, and identity could be reflected, explored, or subverted, allowing insight into questions that preoccupied or troubled medieval society. |
Brazilian Culture |
This course will introduce major topics in Brazilian literature and culture since the country's independence in 1822. A selection of texts/films will be studied in the context of historical and political events. Particular attention will be paid to the following themes: nation-building, post-colonialism and race; regionalism; gender and sexuality; post-modernism, revolution and ideology. These topics will allow the student to think and write comparatively, and to combine detailed textual analysis with theoretical debate and a consideration of historical and cultural factors. |