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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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. |
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. |
Contemporary Science Fiction |
This course focuses on contemporary literary science fiction and its representations and analyses of today's world. Although often setting its narratives in the future or an alternative reality, science fiction engages with contemporary pressures, problems and possibilities, extrapolating from the present to estrange and interrogate its ideas, beliefs and practices. This course introduces students to some of the most influential science fiction writing of the last thirty years, and encourages them to explore how it has depicted and explored the world we live in. |
Cordelia Beattie |
Dr Cordelia Beattie is a Professor of Women's and Gender History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is the medieval editor for Manchester University Press’s Gender in History series and she is on the editorial board of Women’s History Review. |
Counselling Across Borders |
The changes, both advances and challenges, in the current global circumstances have an impact on mental health as well as on what we understand health or illness to be. This course reviews the role of counselling in addressing mental health in the light of this changing landscape. To this end, it will explore in depth 1. the appropriateness and limitations of counselling considering its meaning as, predominantly, a one to one, face to face talking therapy; and 2. |
Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth |
This course introduces students to key issues in the relationship between art and society in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Through close study of visual and material culture, it will explore how social identities were constructed and represented. Year taken: Year 4 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Dario Banegas |
Darío Luis Banegas (He/him) is Lecturer in Education in the Institute for Language Education, Moray House School of Education and Sport, and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research. He is also one of the cohort leads for the MSc TESOL programme. |