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
Fantastic Fiction	This course is being proposed to complement existing options available to students on the MSc programme in Comparative and General Literature. It offers an opportunity to engage with a wide range of 19th, 20th century and contemporary European and Latin-American texts through the specific perspective of the genre of the fantastic. How do we define 'Fantastic Fiction' and what is its purpose and effect?
Feminism Philosophy	In this course we will examine philosophical approaches to feminism and feminist issues. Topics covered may include inequality in the work place and in family structures; global feminism; the relationships between lesbian and feminist philosophy; issues around sex and sexuality, including the objectification of the female body, pornography and prostitution. Credit Level: 10 Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate SCQF credits: 20 Not running in 2025/26
Feminist Foreign Policy and Diplomacy	This course provides an opportunity to critically interrogate the adoption of feminist and pro-gender foreign policies and diplomatic practices by a growing number of states and organisations, sparking both political debate and scholarly engagement. It offers a platform for the conduct of advanced in-depth reflection and analysis of this development through a range of conceptual and theoretical debates. Undergirding the course is the broad question of what it means to conduct feminist and/or pro-gender foreign policy and diplomacy.
Fiction and Espionage (Postgraduate)	The course addresses the modern history of contemporary concerns about secrecy and the surveillance state, terrorism and propaganda. Students will follow a broadly chronological survey from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day that explores how espionage fiction reflects the anxieties of modern society and how these anxieties change historically. The course will consider the relationship of fiction to history, and of 'popular' to 'literary' fiction. Specific issues will include gender, imperialism, technology and the role of political secrecy in everyday life.
Fiction and Espionage (Undergraduate)	The course addresses the modern history of contemporary concerns about secrecy and the surveillance state, terrorism and propaganda. Students will follow a broadly chronological survey from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day that explores how espionage fiction reflects the anxieties of modern society and how these anxieties change historically. The course will consider the relationship of fiction to history, and of 'popular' to 'literary' fiction. Specific issues will include gender, imperialism, technology and the role of political secrecy in everyday life.
Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940	From Emily Brontė's Yorkshire to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the Gothic, with its claustrophobic spaces, brooding landscapes, dark secrets, and ghostly visitations, is a privileged site for the negotiation of anxieties surrounding capitalism, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, race, imperialism, and crime. Looking mainly at novels and short stories from the British Isles, but also examining work from the United States, this course will consider what happened to Gothic fiction after the genre's first flowering in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Filipa Melo Lopes	Filipa Melo Lopes is a Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
Film and Gender	Film and Gender examines the ways in which gender is constructed and performed across a range of moving image forms and genres. The course will introduce students to a wide range of theoretical frameworks and help them to develop analytical approaches responsive to moving image texts. Teaching methods and assessment models are designed to work both for students with a background in film studies and gender studies; and for students without formal training in these fields who bring an interest in pursuing studies in gender and representation.
Fiona Mackay	Fiona Mackay's research addresses the extent to which global and local institutions of politics and governance may be designed, reformed, or challenged to address gender inequality, and to promote gender justice, equal participation, and women’s human rights. Her major research interests are:
Fiona Mackintosh	Fiona's general research interests are in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature (prose and poetry), particularly of the Southern Cone. She also works on women’s writing, literary translation and comparative literature.

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