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
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
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: The culture of the later Middle Ages Romance Literature of traditional religion. He has also written about: Chaucer Shakespeare’s religions background Anthony Van Dyck William Hogarth Film and gender studies. He is currently writing a cultural history of the Franciscan Order in England, entitled St Francis and Cultural Memory: Catholicism a
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.
Delwar Hussain	Elections Ethnography State building Storytelling and ethnography Gender and Sexuality Borderlands Bangladesh Fences South Asia Modernisation
Derek Morris	Derek Morris is a PhD Candidate in the School of Social and Political Science. His research focuses on soldier subjectivity and its relation to the American people. His research interests include: Memory Identity Ideology Narrative inquiry Storytelling and ethnography Iraq and the Middle East Masculinities Militaries. His recent outputs include:
Design and Society	This course will introduce students to design practices that stand self-consciously outside the mainstream of consumer driven design and which instead seek to employ socially and environmentally responsible practices that foreground the needs of marginalised groups and challenge existing power structures.
Design for Ageing	Contemporary representations of people in the later stages of life, from anti-ageing face cream advertisements to road signs depicting bent human bodies, imply that ageing is unwelcome, unpleasant, and a problem to be solved. Some suggest this constitutes a kind of double discrimination: one that acts against older members of society and also our future older selves.
Development and Decolonization in Latin America	This is an Honours course in Geography that studies the continent that we now call Latin America through a decolonial, feminist, and anti-capitalist lens. It enables students to work effectively with decolonial theoretical perspectives and non-Eurocentric knowledges in order to analyse the cultural, political, economic, environmental, and epistemic challenges facing contemporary Latin America and the diverse and creative ways in which Latin Americans mobilize against coloniality and oppression. Credit level: 10 Year taken: Year 4 Undergraduate SCQF credits: 20

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