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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Women and Gender in the New Testament World |
The aim of this course is to examine the representation of women and gender in the New Testament and other ancient Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Christian texts. The course will involve analysis of historical texts and introduce students to the methodological challenges involved in studying ancient sources on women and gender. Students will be introduced to scholarly debates about the extent to which we are able to reconstruct the lives and experiences of women in the ancient world, and will explore recent work on the construction of masculinity in ancient texts. |
Women at Work: Gender, Labour, and Creativity in Premodern European Art |
This course is about women who worked in Premodern Europe from artists to midwives; authors to sex workers. It critically considers how certain forms of bodily labour and creative practice become gendered as 'women's work' We will study both the representation of women labouring in art and the ways medieval women asserted their authorship and authority when at work. This course addresses a diversity of mediums across art, visual and material culture including manuscript illumination, mixed-media sculpture and textiles. |
Women's Rights as Human Rights? |
This module provides a detailed consideration of the ways in which the idiom of human rights both empowers and emasculates different women around the world. It considers women¿s rights historically, theoretically, institutionally and through a variety of case studies. No knowledge of the topic is required, but some familiarity with general human rights debates is useful. Credit level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate SCQF credits: 20 Not running in 2025/26 |
Women, Gender, and the New Testament: Text and Theory |
The aim of this course is to examine the representation of women and gender in the New Testament and other ancient Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Christian texts. The course will involve careful analysis of historical texts as well as critical reflection on the methodological challenges involved in studying ancient sources on women and gender. Students will also explore relevant debates in New Testament scholarship. |
Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond |
This course explores the history of engagement by women writers and artists with the place, idea, and myths of Greece. We first read ancient female writers -- preeminently Sappho -- and examine the representation of women in ancient texts; we then trace the multiple strategies through which "Greece" allows later women writers to assert their authority and authorship, question gender hierarchies and political/sociocultural paradigms, and lay a claim to the classical tradition. |
World Literature |
This option introduces students to the concept of World Literature, its development and current debates. Students will read primary texts that have gained a place in 'world literature', a term often loosely used to describe literary works that have been received successfully well beyond their national boundaries, but that also, more importantly perhaps, draws attention to a work's, and its author's, 'worldliness', its position in the world, and its relation to other literatures and works of art. |
Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiments in Waywardness (Postgraduate) |
This course examines discourses of female identity in contemporary culture, focusing on representations which challenge existing modes and ideals of femininity in a diverse range of texts, enabling students to study experimental and popular writing in the context of current critical approaches, particularly feminism and postfeminism. The current climate is replete with contradictory ideas, images and interpellations of women and femininity, with vaunted social freedoms existing amidst prominent reporting of sexism and misogyny across cultural contexts and communities. |
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970 |
This course examines the ways in which youth and shifting concepts associated with it (such as childhood, adolescence and the phenomenon of the teenager) has been interpreted and experienced in the twentieth century. The course focuses primarily on Britain but also explores the wider global contexts of empire and decolonisation, migration, war in Europe and americanisation; the British experience is compared and contrasted with that of other locations. |
Zubin Mistry |
Zubin Mistry has been a Lecturer in Early Medieval History in 2017 and is one of the Co-ordinators of the Histories of Gender and Sexuality research group in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Zubin is a historian of early medieval Europe between 500 and 1000 CE whose work focuses particularly on reproduction in relation to:
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