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
Science, Knowledge and Expertise	Focussing on science, this course introduces theoretical approaches, concepts and key empirical studies that form the canon and state-of-the-art in research and critical thinking in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. It introduces students to important social science perspectives for understanding scientific practice, knowledge and expertise and their role in the modern world. Rather than taking science, knowledge and expertise as 'given', this course critically explores these categories to show how they are both constituted by and constitutive of modern society.
Scottish Women's Fiction (20th Century)	This course examines a range of fiction texts by Scottish women writers from across the twentieth century, focusing on their literary strategies and their engagement with themes of nationalism, class, gender and sexuality. Scottish women's fiction in the twentieth century presents us with a field of enquiry which both parallels and challenges dominant conceptions and readings of Scottish cultural tradition.
Screening Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity on the German Screen and Beyond	This option course focuses on the representation of sex, gender, sexuality (as well as other intersections of identity), and the representation or implication of sex acts onscreen. Students will learn to 'read' film, including close analysis (shot types, editing, sound etc.), to theorise various types of onscreen representation (using, for example, Queer Theory, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis), and to locate film historically (including key film movements and tends such as New German Cinema, New Queer Cinema, and Transnational Cinema). SCQF Credits: 10 Credit Level: 8
Şebnem Susam-Saraeva	Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Şebnem’s research interests have included gender and translation, and translation of French feminism. She is currently working on translation in maternal health, and translation and ecofeminism.
Second Language Teaching Curriculum	This course covers key concepts, theories and trends in the field of Foreign/Second Language Education in general, and in TESOL in particular. We examine these fields within the context of the curriculum. Teaching methods are often seen as the most important factor in ensuring the success of a programme, yet it is also essential to look at how the various factors in the teaching-learning process interact with each other.
Selected Themes in the Study of World Christianity	This core course offers candidates the opportunity to study in depth Christian history, thought and practice in and from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Primary attention is given to methods for the study of indigenous forms and expressions of christianity, to issues of culture and gender, and the changing patterns of relationship between Christianity in the West and other parts of the world. Issues of religious pluralism feature significantly in terms of the interaction between Christianity and other religious traditions. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate
Sergi Mainer	Translation Studies from the Middle Ages to the present Translation, ideology and social movements The construction of class, gender, national and cultural identities Comparative cultural studies Medieval and early modern European literature with an emphasis in Scottish and Catalan literature The main focus of my research concerns the social and political dimension of culture and the construction of class, gender, national and cultural identities with a particular emphasis on Translation Studies and comparative cultural studies.
Severine Genieys-Kirk	Dr Séverine Genieys-Kirk is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures' Department for European Languages and Culture.
Sex, Decadence and Decay in Weimar Germany	Weimar Berlin was a peculiar place. It was where deep cultural pessimism after a crushing defeat in World War 1 existed alongside an intoxicating atmosphere of novelty and daring experimentation. Along with art and entertainment, 1920s Berlin became (in)famous as the sexual capital of Europe. This course will use the debates and dynamics concerning sex in this period as lens through which to understand the wider history of interwar Europe, modernity, democracy and totalitarianism.
Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature (PG)	This course aims to explore the presentations of seduction and sedition in the literature of the Restoration period in order to consider the ways in which ideas of sexuality were deployed for political ends, both domestic and national. Beginning with a series of readings of the Restoration state as a family structure, the course will go on to examine the ways that tensions within that idea were exposed by the literature of the period.

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