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
Mariya Levitanus	Mariya is a scholar, queer activist, and psychotherapist from Kazakhstan. She earned her Doctorate in Psychotherapy from the University of Edinburgh in 2020. Her earlier research explored the everyday narratives of queer individuals in Kazakhstan, while her current work focuses on Russian queer and trans* migration to Central Asia following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Marlies Kustatscher	Marlies Kustatscher (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Moray House School of Education and Sport.
Marta Kowalewska	My current research focuses on the invisibility of Roma women in feminism and nationalism studies. My research interests include: gender and nationalism Roma activism feminisms and feminist theory gender politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Martyrdom, Monasticism and Mysticism: Women Writers of the Early and Medieval Church	This course enables students to engage in depth with women writers in the Christian tradition from the years 200-1440 in their historical and theological contexts. Ten writers will be studied, from Perpetua of Carthage to Margery Kempe, covering the period from the Roman Empire to the Byzantine Empire to Late Medieval Western Europe.
Mary Holmes	Professor Mary Holmes is Professor of Emotions and Society at the School of Social and Political Science. She joined the sociology subject area at Edinburgh in 2013. As well as the sociology of emotions, Mary’s research interests include: Intimate relationships Gender Feminism Sexuality. She is currently researching how climate change is impacting on women’s reproductive choices.
Maryam Al-Hajri	Maryam AlHajri is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science. Her thesis is concerned with the systematic marginalisation and erasure of histories of different socio-political actors in Qatar (1950-60s). Her research interests include the formation of post-colonial states and theories of political sociology, marginality and subalternity, particularly in the context of the Arab Gulf States.
Media and Visual Culture in Modern China	This course examines print media and visual culture in modern China (1880-1949), as well as the ways in which they interacted with political, social and cultural transformations. Late Qing and Republican China witnessed a flourishing of visual culture thanks to the rapid development of print media (newspapers, pictorials, and film magazines, etc), photography, and cinema. This rich repertoire of visual sources offers valuable insights into the dynamics of societal change in China's modern history.
Medieval Bodies: Integrity, Rupture and Metamorphosis (Ordinary)	This course focuses on the body in the Middle Ages as a site where different discourses were played out, a symbolic space that could be figured as either whole and integral, or unstable and unpredictable. The image of the body in medieval European cultures was open to the influence of ideology, politics, religion, and gender hierarchies, and while often presented in terms of oppositions: human and animal, body and spirit, male and female. Credit Level: 9 Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate
Medieval Men and Masculinities	This course introduces students to the study of medieval men and masculinities. The course focuses on a series of primary sources from the tenth to the twelfth centuries including Scandinavian sagas; chivalric romances; monastic histories and medieval letter collections. The course examines constructions and representations of medieval masculinities. Over the last twenty years there has developed considerable academic interest in this subject and students will be expected to engage fully with this historiography.
Meryl Kenny	Meryl is Head of Politics and International Relations and Professor of Gender and Politics in the School of Social and Political Science. She researches, teaches and consults on gender (in)equality in politics, with a focus on political parties and parliaments. Current research projects include work on violence against women in local politics; the quality of women’s political representation; and gender- and diversity-sensitive parliaments.

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