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.
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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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The Performative Turn: Performance and Live Art since 1945 |
This course provides a detailed examination of performance theory and practice from 1945 to the present day. The course is structured as a series of two-hour seminars, one of which will take the form of a practical workshop led by a professional performer. The seminars will focus each week on different themes, including gender and sexuality, critical race theory, class identity, disability, and the posthuman. This course provides a detailed examination of performance theory and practice from 1945 to the present day. |
The Queer Eighteenth Century (PG) |
Characteristically modern forms of sexual and gender identity came into being during the long eighteenth century. This course examines the representation of emergent queer identities in a range of genres, including drama, fiction, poetry and memoir. We'll read about mollies, fops and sodomites, tribades, sapphists, and female husbands. Early modern queerness was in some ways more capacious than contemporary ways of figuring non-normative sexual and gender identities, though it was also more violently policed. |
The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature (Postgraduate) |
This course explores literature of the Romantic period (1790-1830) in Britain in relation to the aesthetics and politics of 'terror.' *This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently postgraduate places are limited This course concentrates mainly on the relationship between the aesthetic category of the sublime and the political climate of fear created by the Reign of Terror in France in the mid-1790s and intensified by the revolutionary wars in Europe. |
The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature (Undergraduate) |
This course introduces students to different concepts and discourses of terror in romantic period literature. It concentrates mainly on the relationship between the aesthetic category of the sublime and the political climate of fear created by the Reign of Terror in France in the mid-1790s and intensified by the revolutionary wars in Europe. The course explores how ideas and perceptions of terror fed into romantic literature, and how romantic literature in turn helped to reshape notions of fear. |
The Social Life of Food |
The course provides a framework for understanding key concepts and contemporary debates about food, as well as critically evaluating how past, current and future food-related issues are framed and dealt with locally and globally. In particular we ask: what is food and where has it come from? Can we measure food? How does food act on us? Has food anything to do with government? Who can grow food and where? Who do we eat with and who is not at the table? How could food be different? |
The Subordinate Male: Racism, Gendercide, and Savagery in the 20th and 21st Century |
This course explores the historical development and contemporary accounts of racialized males throughout 20th and 21st century Europe and America sociology and gender theory. This course aims to analyse the relationship between savagery, racial conquest, feminism, and genocide and the fear of the racialized male. Black, Jewish, and Arab men and boys are of central concern, but various readings will explore the experiences of Armenian, Serbian, and other racial male groups exterminated and sexually assaulted genocidal and colonial events. |
The United States in the 1960s |
The course examines major aspects of politics and society in the United States during the 1960s. As a unifying theme, it investigates the nature of political liberalism in the United States, analyzing the goals and achievements of liberal politicians. The course also examines a series of liberal and radical challenges to 'consensus liberalism'. In examining major aspects of the 1960s in the United States, the course concentrates on the nature of American political liberalism during this period. |
The White Man's Burden: Race, Gender and the Victorian Empire |
This course will introduce students to the key themes, events, and personalities of the Victorian Empire. British imperial power came in many forms and drew on a variety of strategies for rule, including but not limited to: military conquest and subjugation, collaboration with indigenous elites, cultural subversion, and technological hegemony. This course will investigate each of these strategies while also considering the full spectrum of colonial responses which they provoked. |
Theories and Methods of Literary Study II |
Having pushed the boundaries of the discipline of Comparative Literature in the first semester course, this second semester course enacts a return to the more familiar territory of the literary as primary object of study, but introduces students to - or refreshes their memory of! - a number of different critical theories and approaches to studying the literary object. These are all theories which emerged in the 20th century and which are continuing to inform and feed into contemporary modes of analysis. |
Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide |
Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide will introduce students to the challenges brought about by translation through a consideration of various genres and themes. The course will present various theoretical approaches to the study of translation. As such the course is an introduction to the field of Translation Studies, which is currently solely taught at Edinburgh University at Postgraduate level. Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide is an introduction to the activity of translation and the discipline of Translation Studies. |