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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Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature (UG)	Students taking this course will explore the ways in which Restoration literature depicts sex, desire and love. They will analyse relationships between literary texts and the political, theological and philosophical debates taking place about sexuality in Restoration culture.
Sexual Politics and the Image	This course examines art and related visual fields in relation to sexual politics. Widely encountered in feminist criticism since the 1960s, the term 'sexual politics' has revolutionised approach to the image in art history and the humanities. This is because it positions the production of the sexed/gendered subject as a complex political issue that is neither fixed nor exclusively private but rather actively negotiated in the public domain of culture.
Shakespeare's Comedies: Identity and Illusion	This course explores the range of Shakespeare's writing of comedy from the early romantic comedies, through the "mature" and "problem" comedies, to the tragicomic romance of the last plays. The course will consider early modern and recent ideas about comedy as a genre and mode, and trace the ongoing engagement of the plays with various interpenetrating thematic debates such as those concerning racial difference and gender identity.
Shakespearean Sexualities	In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler posed the following questions: 'Does sex have a history' Does each sex have a different history, or histories? Is there a history of how the duality of sex was established, a genealogy that might expose the binary oppositions as a variable construction'' (1992, 7). Since then, numerous scholars have explored these questions, with many of them focusing on Shakespearean drama.
Shan-Jan Sarah Liu	Dr Sarah Liu is a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Politics in the School of Social and Political Science. She is an Associate Editor of Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy and Coordinating Editor for Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Sharon Cowan	Her research interests include: Gender, Sexuality and the Law Feminist Legal Theory Criminal Law Criminal Justice Asylum studies Recent and current projects include: A national empirical project, along with Helen Baillot of the Scottish Refugee Council and Vanessa Munro of the University of Nottingham, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, looking at the the way in which women asylum claimants whose applications are based on a claim of rape are treated by the Asylum and Immigration Appeal Tribunal A c
Sheelalipi Sahana	Sheelalipi Sahana (she/her) is a PhD candidate in English Literature in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Her research interests include: Gender Space Materiality Postcolonialism Agency Travel writing Modernity. Current and notable research projects/ publications: "Object as subject: Material agency in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa”", Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 58, no. 3, 2022, pp.
Sheila Riddell	Her research interests are in the broad field of equality and social inclusion, with particular reference to gender, social class and disability in the fields of education, training, employment and social care. Sheila is currently working on projects investigating higher education, lifelong learning policy, and special and inclusive education across Europe.
Shereen Benjamin	boys, girls and schooling addressing heterosexism and homophobia in schools sociological perspectives on additional support for learning/special educational needs feminist poststructuralist theories ethnography in schools teacher education
Shirley Gray	Dr Shirley Gray (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education (PE), having previously worked as a PE teacher and then as a teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

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