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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Unwritten Korea: Understanding Korean Society and Culture through Contemporary Arts and Films |
The course aims to familiarise students with Korean society and culture through an analysis of films, dramas, and music. The course is structured chronologically, beginning with films and dramas set in the Joseon era, colonial rule, the Korea war, authoritarian rule and social contention, and, lastly, the more contemporary period. The course topics include Korean society in history and under the colonial rules, inequality, urban culture, gender inequality, Korean Noirs (the dark side of societies), generational gaps, and multi-culturalism. |
Valeria Skafida |
Valeria Skafida is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh. |
Vander Viana |
Dr Vander Viana (he/him) is Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (formerly known as Higher Education Academy). He has extensive first-hand experience of language teacher education in UK higher education, having worked in England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. He has wide international experience as well, having delivered guest lectures in several countries (e.g. |
Veronique Desnain |
Dr Véronique Desnain (she/her) holds a PhD from the University of Bristol and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Hidden Tragedies: the social construction of gender in Racine (2001) and co-editor of Culture and conflict in seventeenth-century France (2004) as well as journal articles and book chapters on 17th century French drama and French Crime Fiction. |
Visualising Boccaccio's Decameron Across Arts and Media |
This option explores a masterpiece of classical Italian prose, Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1349-1353), a collection of 100 tales told by 10 young people (seven women and three men) who flee plague-stricken Florence to a delightful villa in nearby Fiesole. This course will contextualise and analyse the original text, as well as look at its afterlife across arts and media in the following centuries. We will examine topics, such as fortune, love, death, wit, and critically engage with questions of gender, class, sexuality, and religion. |
Wannes Dupont |
Biography Wannes Dupont is Lecturer in the History of Sexuality at the University of Edinburgh. He previously held positions at Yale-NUS College and Utrecht University and fellowships at Yale University, Australian National University, and the University of Antwerp. His work, publications, and teaching primarily concern the European and global history of sexuality, reproductive politics, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion. Current Projects Before the Gender Wars: The Globalisation of Sexuality as a Policy issue, 1945-1965 |
Wendy Loretto |
Wendy has 20 years of researching gendered aspects of ageing, later-life employment and retirement. Current project is Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work (SHAW) which aims to support health needs of over-50s in the workplace. Her publications include: Duncan, C. and Loretto, W., 2004. Never the right age? Gender and age‐based discrimination in employment. Gender, Work & Organization, 11(1), pp.95-115. Loretto, W. and Vickerstaff, S., 2013. |
Wendy Ugolini |
Dr Wendy Ugolini is a Senior Lecturer in History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She is a social and cultural historian of the Second World War, specialising in race, ethnicities and identity formation. She is a Co-Founder of the Second World War Network (Scotland). Wendy teaches on the undergraduate courses 'Britons at War. |
What Moves Them: Dance and Performance Art Since 1913 |
This course provides a detailed examination of the development of contemporary dance and live performance from 1913 to the present day. Through analysis of visual, filmed and written material, you will identify crucial parallels between dance and visual art movements, connecting aesthetic analysis to relevant social and historical context throughout the period surveyed. |
Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East |
Within the confines of Roman society, women were traditionally accorded private, domestic roles, but an intriguing body of inscriptions and material evidence from the empire's eastern provinces tells a markedly different story. This evidence reveals numerous wealthy and influential women holding priesthoods, performing lavish benefactions, (co)founding public building projects, and even acting as civic officials. |