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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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 |
Professor 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 one of the editors of the journal Gender and History. Cordelia teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on medieval women and gender. Her research interests include:The history of women and gender in pre-modern Britain and Europe, especially in relation to: |
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. |
Daughters, Wives and Mothers: Women in England, c.1300-1500 |
This course will examine the lives of women in late medieval England, from birth to death, by examining a range of primary source material both by and about women such as court records, wills, and letters. Its focus is on those below the ranks of the aristocracy and will look at peasant women, townswomen and women in gentry families. It will consider their upbringing, occupations, literacy, participation in religious activities, and rights at law. SCQF Credits: 40 Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: UG4 Not running in 2026/27 |
David Farrier |
Professor David Farrier is Professor of Literature and the Environment at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. He also convenes the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network. David’s current research is in literary responses to environmental change and the Anthropocene. |
David Salter |
Dr David Salter is a Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
His principal research interests lie in:
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Debating Marriage between Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
This course examines how and why ideals and practices of marriage in later Roman and post-Roman societies shifted between c.400 and c.1000. Focussing on a range of primary sources, students will gain a detailed understanding of how marriage was contested, disputed and transformed in this period, and will carefully examine the social, political and religious contexts of these developments. |
Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century |
This course will explore the literary afterlives of the decadent movement of the fin de siècle. It will begin by considering late-nineteenth-century literary decadence, aestheticism, and cosmopolitanism, focusing in particular on the relationship between aesthetics, form, politics, and community in fin-de-siècle anglophone literature. This work will then be used as a foundation to examine the way in which literary decadence was used by later writers in responding to some of the major crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. |