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
Lena Wånggren	Dr Lena Wånggren teaches courses on English and Scottish Literature, gender studies and feminist writing, in the English Literature department and at the Centre for Open Learning.
Lilah Grace Canevaro	My research centres on archaic Greek poetry, epic and didactic in particular. I am interested in the modes of reading which ancient poetry invites, and try in my research to track such readings from the invitation (through close reading of the poems themselves) to the response to it (the reception of the poems). In much of my research I make connections between Greek literature and other cultures and time periods, a particular interest being Victorian poetry and art. I draw on comparative and reception methodologies, and am starting to explore ways i
Linda O'Keeffe	Dr. Linda O Keeffe (she/her) is a sound artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is senior lecturer (associate professor) of sound in the Arts at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is founder of the Women in Sound Women on Sound (WISWOS) organisation, Editor-in-Chief for the Interference Journal, a journal of audio cultures.
Lisa Howard	Lisa Howard has just submitted her PhD thesis in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Sciences. Her research is exploring the intersections of parenting, personal life and the climate crisis through interviews and a diary study of UK-based climate activist parents.
Lisa Raeder	Lisa Raeder is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self, and Society at the University of Edinburgh, with a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from Stockholm University. Her research intersects the disciplinary fields of critical theory, gender studies and medical humanities, and her PhD project investigates the role of hormonal contraceptives in the production of gender and sexuality, and conceptions of health and the self. Since 2020.
Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics	Modernist Aesthetics is the semester 1 core course for the MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme. The course explores key texts and topics in modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century, alongside cultural, historical and intellectual contexts, and a range of critical and theoretical approaches. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate
Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond	This is the semester 2 core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is only available for students on that programme. This course examines topics in contemporary literary and critical theory with specific attention paid to questions of the politics of literary texts, the production of political identity through texts, and the contested questions of cultural politics through which texts are read. Topics to be covered include post-structuralism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, sexual politics and cultural identity. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate
Literature and Performance in Modern Japan	This course aims to enable students to develop their understanding, appreciation and critical awareness of literature and performance in modern Japan. For students who have previously taken Introduction to Japanese Literature (ASST08053), Modern East Asian History A (ASST08042) or Society and Culture in Premodern East Asia (ASST08052), it offers the opportunity to build on the understanding of Japanese cultural identity they have acquired through reading key literary works.
Liz Stanley	Professor Liz Stanley is a Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science. Her research interests include: Historical sociology Feminist theory Sociological theory Social change Narrative & auto/biographical methodologies South Africa 'Documents of life', in particular letters and diaries Everyday life sociology Norbert Elias & figurational sociology. Her recent research outputs include: Stanley, L. (2021).
Looking at Women in Renaissance and Baroque Art	Renaissance art is often seen as the conceptual anchor for a conservative type of art history that focuses on great male artists and their revival of a classical past. This course uses recent research to challenge the idea, showing how old master painting can speak to current issues of sexual, gender and political identity. Focussing on different roles for women, we will investigate how visual culture promotes and challenges ideas of what it means to be female. We will look at women as archetypes of beauty, as wives, prostitutes, artists, patrons, poets and witches.

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