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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| Name | Details |
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Emily Mann |
Emily (she/her) is an ESRC funded PhD student in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Edinburgh researching policing and gender in Scotland. Emily is an Associate Fellow of the HE Academy and teaches criminology, criminal justice, politics and gender studies and co-hosts the Gender & Sexuality Studies Deep Dive into Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Emily features as a guest sociologist on BBC Radio Scotland and her award winning public engagement fringe debut with the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas asked ‘Can the Police be Feminist?”. |
Emma Gieben-Gamal |
My subject interest lies in the history of design and material culture studies and I am particularly interested in issues revolving around the social and cultural construction of space as they are articulated through design. In 2005 this resulted in the publication of a book charting the relationship between garden design and wider socio-cultural, political, scientific and philosophical movements. More recently my interests have returned to interior spaces and the significance of gender in the construction of space, place and spatial meaning, which picks up on work that was published in an a |
Environment Justice and Development |
This course aims to introduce students to relationships between the environment (nature, biodiversity, natural resources, ecosystem services etc.) and (international) development (well-being, social justice, inclusion etc.), and the ways in which we might understand these relations in order to intervene in them. It takes a critical perspective on mainstreamed approaches to 'sustainable development' and explores 'alternatives' that promote environmental and social justice. |
Epistemic Injustice |
This course will introduce and examine a range of topics at the intersection of epistemology and political/social/feminist philosophy, examining our actual epistemic practices in light of the relations of power and subordination that exist between differently placed groups in society, and looking at different proposals for how this should shape our theorizing about knowledge and ignorance. Credit Level: 10 Year taken: Year 4 Undergraduate SCQF Credits: 20 |
Esther Breitenbach |
Since 2011, Dr Esther Breitenbach (she/her) has been Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, where she previously held teaching and research posts. Prior to that she taught and researched in Social Policy, and also held secondments to the Scottish Executive Equality Unit (1998-2001) and the UK Women and Equality Unit (2001-2003). She holds an MA from the University of Dundee (1974) and PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2005). She has had a long standing involvement with Women’s History Scotland, of which she was a founder member. |
Ethical Encounters with the 'Other' in Speculative Fiction |
This course investigates religious and ethical encounters with the 'other' in contemporary speculative fiction. In these texts, the 'other' tends to be represented by non-human intelligences such as AI and extra-terrestrials, but their encounters frequently reflect historic encounters between humans seeking to 'other' each other. Through these texts and their use of cognitive estrangement, we trace postcolonial, feminist, womanist, queer, and crip theories as they relate to religious and ethical concepts of human exceptionalism within different faiths and none. |
Eve's Children: Art and Gender 600-1400 |
This course focuses on representations and perceptions of gender, sexuality and the body in medieval England and France. Seminars will address the following themes: motherhood and the maternal; gender and sexuality in celibate communities; monsters and the monstrous; masculinity and warfare; flesh vs. spirit; metaphorical vs. actual; fetish; fragmentation and the gaze. While we will explore multiple approaches to these issues, emphasis will be placed on interweaving the following three strands: the art object, historical context and theory. |
Exclusion and Inequality (fusion on-site) |
The course examines several fields that manifest profound inequalities (such as between the global north and global south; within labour markets; and within public institutions) and two interdisciplinary tracks for examining A) relational/experiential and B) historical/structural dynamics. Examining each field will uncover the intersecting issues of class, race, gender, age, ability, citizenship, and more. Students will form groups by field, and each group will have students assigned to each interdisciplinary perspective. |
Exploring the Novel |
This course will examine a range of novels from a variety of periods and introduce students to various critical debates surrounding the form. We will examine selected works with a particular emphasis on questions such as: are there specific formal elements that characterize those narratives we call 'novels' and if so, what might they be? What is meant by terms such as 'realism' 'modernism' 'romanticism' 'bildungsroman' and what might be at stake in debates over how these terms are defined? What are the uses and limitations of such terms and the narrative elements they describe and inscribe? |
Fairy Tales (Postgraduate) |
This course is intended to introduce students to significant exponents of the literary fairy tale in Britain and Europe from the Renaissance to the contemporary period, enabling them to explore the evolution and development of the genre across time with regard to its changing aesthetic form and the different range of cultural, social, and symbolic meanings which the genre invokes. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate |