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
Reading Arab Feminist Texts: Key Debates on Women's Rights in the Arab World	This course provides a survey of key Arab feminist texts produced by writers, thinkers, and activists during the 20th and 21st centuries. As this is a language-based course, these texts will be read in the original Arabic alongside secondary sources that illuminate the central debates these texts engage with. This is a language-based discursive course designed to enable students to examine key Arab feminist texts and to consider these within broader social, cultural, and political contexts.
Reading Science Fiction	This course focuses on narrative science fiction, allowing students to explore the ways in which texts construct stories, present and explore ideas, and engage with today's world. An influential critical definition of science fiction is that it is the literature of 'cognitive estrangement': that it de-familiarises the world by presenting alternate realities that are conceptually explored so as to raise questions about consensus views of reality, technology, consciousness, identity and politics.
Rebecca Collins	Rebecca Collins (she/her) is an award-winning artist researcher and lecturer working at the intersection between contemporary performance and sound. Her main research interests are in listening, performance, sound studies, and creative/critical writing. Rebecca’s practice focuses on the dynamics of the sonic operating within specific environments, and technologies, to explore methodologies of writing, and making contemporary performance.
Rebecca Hewer	Gender Embodiment Vulnerability Choice and Consent Feminist and Queer Theory Critical Social and Political Theory Critical Discourse Analysis Ethics Social Policy Law Socio-Legal Studies
Rebecca Tapscott	Dr Rebecca Tapscott is a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Politics and International Relations Department.
Research: Theories and Methods	This course addresses some of the key theoretical and methodological issues active in the discipline of History of Art. It aims to familarise postgraduate students with some of the formative influences on the development of art history as a discipline, and with critical issues in historical and current debates about the parameters, nature and scope of art history, and to help students engage with these theories and methods in their own research.
Richard Sharpe	Fetal origins of the commonest human male reproductive disorders of newborn and young adult males (‘Testicular dysgenesis syndrome’) Physiology, endocrinology, biochemistry and molecular biology of the development and function of the testis and male reproductive tract with respect to male reproductive health and fertility Regulation of spermatogenesis and sperm maturation Disorders of spermatogenesis and sperm maturation Detection of abnormalities in spermatogenesis Effects of environmental chemical exposures and lifestyle facto
Rochelle Rowe	Biography I am a historian focused on the cultural history of race, gender and the body. I lecture in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh. Current Project
Romanticism and Victorian Society 1815-1900	This course picks up the strands of the semester 1 course on 'Enlightenment and Romanticism' - the romantic subject, the nation, gender and class hierarchies - and takes them forward into the nineteenth century. It traces their ramifications across a wide range of genres, and introduces students to the complexities of the interaction between literary and cultural formations in the Romantic and Victorian periods.
Rooms of Their Own: Feminist Thought in Literature	In this course we shall explore the development of women's writing and social politics, looking at how feminist thought has been expressed in literature from the 19th century onward. Reading seminal novels by women, we will discuss topics including the 19th century 'New Woman', the struggle for artistic recognition that many women writers have faced, and global gender issues. Students on this course will read a selection of texts written by women.

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