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.

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
Cinema Auteurs	Cinema Auteurs allows students to explore the work of important directors from around the world in detail. Key topics to be discussed include: the usefulness or obsolescence of the concept of individual authorship in cinema; cinema as both a highly collaborative art and activity and a means of individual artistic expression; the role of gender, sexuality and politics in considering issues of authorship; and the differences between mainstream and art cinema filmmakers. Credit level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate SCQF credits: 20
Claire Boyle	Post-war and contemporary French autobiography Twentieth-century French thought and modern critical theory Post-war and contemporary French cinema (especially queer cinema, first-person cinema, and testimonial films)
Claire Duncanson	Claire Duncanson is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on issues relating to gender, peace and security, with a particular focus on and gender and peacebuilding. She teaches and supervises in these areas to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh. Her current work aims to bring a feminist analysis to the political economy of building peace.
Clayton Boeyink	Dr Clayton Boeyink (he/him) is a Research Fellow at the Centre of African Studies, situated within the School of Social and Political Science.
Coloniality of Data (fusion on-site)	Social and ethical concerns with 'data-driven' practices tend to focus on the 'garbage in, garbage out' problem - i.e., how inequality comes to be embedded in the production and application of 'bad data', and the imperative to produce and use data more responsibly. This course proposes that these concerns, while not irrelevant, are inadequate; for the problem of inequality does not only lie in 'bad data' but in the notion of data itself.
Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture	The course includes relevant topics in colonial and postcolonial literature and ecocriticism. The first week introduces students to key concepts of empire, colonialism, postcolonialism, commodity, and culture with excerpts of texts by key postcolonial thinkers such as Said, Spivak, Williams, Lazarus, and Chaudhuri. It also uses a short essay from Dickens on 'cigars' to show how we will be reading literature through their attendant historical, cultural, and socio-ecological contexts.
Comparing Nationalisms	The emphasis in this course is on how nationalism is studied. The first part involves lectures and discussions on methodological approaches and models for studying nationalism, such as typologies, comparative frameworks, and case studies. Thereafter various themes that help organize and focus research are explored, such as: national identity, ethnic conflict, and nationalism's relationships to religion, language, postcolonialism, globalization (exact topics may vary from year to year).
Contemporary Feminist Debates	Drawing on social science expertise from across the University, this interdisciplinary course introduces students to a range of contemporary feminist debates. It explores an array of feminist perspectives, highlighting the poly-vocality and plurality of feminism as a political philosophy, intellectual commitment, and social movement. It highlights common themes across seemingly discrete areas of feminist activism and theorisation – tracing histories and geographies of thought.
Contemporary Japanese Cinema	This course will explore Japanese films made in the context of socio-political change since the bursting of the 1980s economic bubble. Attention will be paid to locating cinema within the debate on the many social issues to have emerged since 1989, including but not limited to: Japanese national identity, gender politics. migration and multiculturalism, economic restructuring, tradition and aesthetics, consumption and the virtual, minorities and youth culture.
Contemporary Postcolonial Writing (PG)	This course aims to introduce students to recent writing in English across a range of genres - novels, films, poetry and non-fiction prose - by authors from countries around the globe. It presents students with a range of perspectives and debates that have entered literary theory via postcolonial studies, and seeks to prompt them to use these ideas to reconsider texts they have read in other classes and contexts.

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