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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The United States in the 1960s |
The course examines major aspects of politics and society in the United States during the 1960s. As a unifying theme, it investigates the nature of political liberalism in the United States, analyzing the goals and achievements of liberal politicians. The course also examines a series of liberal and radical challenges to 'consensus liberalism'. In examining major aspects of the 1960s in the United States, the course concentrates on the nature of American political liberalism during this period. |
The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire |
This course will introduce students to the key themes, events, and personalities of the Victorian Empire. British imperial power came in many forms and drew on a variety of strategies for rule, including but not limited to: military conquest and subjugation, collaboration with indigenous elites, cultural subversion, and technological hegemony. This course will investigate each of these strategies while also considering the full spectrum of colonial responses which they provoked. |
Theories and Methods of Literary Study II |
Having pushed the boundaries of the discipline of Comparative Literature in the first semester course, this second semester course enacts a return to the more familiar territory of the literary as primary object of study, but introduces students to - or refreshes their memory of! - a number of different critical theories and approaches to studying the literary object. These are all theories which emerged in the 20th century and which are continuing to inform and feed into contemporary modes of analysis. |
Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide |
Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide will introduce students to the challenges brought about by translation through a consideration of various genres and themes. The course will present various theoretical approaches to the study of translation. As such the course is an introduction to the field of Translation Studies, which is currently solely taught at Edinburgh University at Postgraduate level. Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide is an introduction to the activity of translation and the discipline of Translation Studies. |
Thomas Calvard |
Tom Calvard (he/him) is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management based in the Business School. He is also currently EDI Director for the School, and collaborates with various colleagues on various topics relating to equity, diversity and inclusion practices in workplace contexts. |
Three Minute Records: Case Studies in Popular Music |
In this course students will learn to apply theories and approaches relevant to popular music studies via in-depth study of particular artists, eras, genres and/or styles, etc. in popular music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will choose their own areas of research focus (artist, genre/style, development, etc.) and will learn to consider these topic(s) using relevant scholarship, theories, and approaches. |
Topics in Popular Music |
Topics in Popular Music introduces various themes and theoretical frameworks with which to approach the study of popular music. With American popular music of the late 19th and 20th centuries acting as something of a case study, students will be encouraged to consider issues related to technology, genre, race, gender, capitalism, and colonialism. |
Transatlantic Disability Histories, c. 1700-1990 |
This course provides an introduction to the field of Disability History and will explore how cognitive and physical difference have been understood and constructed in Europe and the Americas from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. We will examine how disability intersected with systems of labour, care, race, gender, colonial power and transatlantic exchange, and how disabled people have navigated and resisted these structures. Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Twenty-First Century Fiction |
This course introduces students to the major themes, crises and debates surrounding the contemporary novel, exploring how authors have responded to the cultural and technological challenges of living in the new century. These novels allow us to examine a number of key issues and crises that have shaped contemporary experience, including (but not limited to) the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror'; technology and internet surveillance; globalisation and the financial crash; and late modernity, temporal dislocation and historical memory. |
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World: Key Concepts, Controversies and Challenges |
How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? How is gender constructed in different contexts and what are the material consequences? How can gender analyses empower us to act as agents of personal and social change? This inter-disciplinary course provides an overview of the major issues at stake in the study of gender relations from a broadly social science perspective. It introduces students to gender studies as a theoretical field of investigation, examining key concepts and debates in the field. |