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
The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art	What are the narratives that define contemporary art? The course will seek to answer this two-part question by examining five specific issues of exemplary relevance to the many and complex practices comprising the field of contemporary art. These five issues are: 1. The Rise and Fall of Postmodernism. 2. The End of Art? 3. The Turn to the Moving Image. 4. The Aesthetics and Politics of the Everyday. 5. Globalisation and the Critical Interpretation of the Contemporary.
The Anthropology of Education and Learning	The course forms part of the MSc Education (Comparative Education and International Development) pathway and provides an in-depth exploration of issues of comparative education, using the insights gained from social anthropology, to complement the broader approaches to international comparison. This course explores how the insights and concepts gained through the discipline of social anthropology, including the ethnographic methodology that underlies it, can add to our understandings of educational theory and practice.
The Anthropology of the Body	The course engages with both established and developing contemporary scholarship and debates concerning anthropological approaches to the body. The course aims to enrich and supplement broader disciplinary studies across medical and political anthropology, as well as scholarship concerned with material culture. Now more than ever the body and its forms have become entangled in and around debates across a swathe of academic scholarship and current affairs issues of broader public concern.
The Canterbury Tales	The Canterbury Tales is both one of the most accessible and also one of the most challenging works of medieval literature. It offers a rich and varied story collection, within the framework of a social and spiritual pilgrimage. The individual stories spread across a wide spectrum of tone, and of genre, woven by parallel and contrast, theme and narration, into an intricate and complex whole. The aim of the course is to explore a range of different individual tales, within the context of the work as a whole.
The Contemporary Irish Novel 1960 to the Present	This course will explore representations of Ireland and Irishness in contemporary Irish novels. Famous for its literary tradition, since 1960 Ireland has gone through radical social and political transformation and writers have challenged established notions of Irish identity and questioned the limits and possibilities of what it means to be Irish.
The Ethnologists: The Racial Origins of Gender and the Feminine	This class will trace the actual historical construction of gender from the 19th century to the early-20th century with the rise of ethnological accounts of masculinity and savagery. Beginning with the development of the concept of gender in the annals of ethnology, this course will trace the construction of the vulnerable white woman to the alien male, and explore how these ideas served as the basis of mid-20th century ideas of feminism and racial inferiority. Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: Year 4 Undergraduate
The Future of Work	The primary aim of this course is to elucidate the colonial logic that underlies our imaginings of the future of work. Most often, the invocation of the ‘future of work’ refers to the contemporary practices and discourses that manifest and speculate upon how technology will impact the arrangement, distribution and function of work in the future. Taken as such, the future of work is most often analysed and imagined as either utopia or dystopia.
The Nature of Geographical Knowledge	The course examines the history and contested nature of what counts as knowledge in geography. It deals with how geographers have investigated and understood the world in the past, and how they do so now, and considers the implications of those histories and practices. The course asks questions about the construction of geographical knowledge in terms of trust and epistemology and of the bases to truth claims in, for example, geographical fieldwork.
The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (PG)	This course surveys the novel in Britain at a crucial stage in its development, namely the decades after the French Revolution in 1789. In this period the novel’s formal resources were developed in innovative ways in response to the intense ideological struggle prompted by this event, raising radical questions about women’s role in society, the future of slavery, repression and political violence; new conceptions of national history and culture underpinned reaction against this revolutionary spirit.
The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (UG)	This course surveys the novel in Britain at a crucial stage in its development, namely the decades after the French Revolution in 1789. In this period the novel’s formal resources were developed in innovative ways in response to the intense ideological struggle prompted by this event, raising radical questions about women’s role in society, the future of slavery, repression and political violence; new conceptions of national history and culture underpinned reaction against this revolutionary spirit.

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