MPhil Text Seminar Lecturers: Academic Year 2023-24
The Multi-disciplinary Text Seminars component of the MPhil introduces students to expert scholars from over twenty University departments engaged in gender research. Experts introduce key texts from within their own field and then engage in debate with students about the merits of their own subject’s approaches. One of the Centre's Lecturers will facilitate discussion on the particular ontological, epistemological and methodological benefits (or potential problems) of differing ways of ‘doing’ gender research. Students therefore also gain a crucial understanding as to how clashing perspectives can be generative of a more holistic and nuanced approach to gender analysis.
These sessions will be used to scrutinise a series of primary texts under the guidance of academic experts from across the Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, and (Natural) Sciences, including the subjects listed below:
Professor Caroline Bassett, Faculty of English
Digital Humanities
Dr Laura Caponetto, Newnham College
Philosophy
Dr Eleanor Drage, Centre for Future of Intelligence Studies
Future of Intelligence Studies
Dr Isaias Fanlo, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Performance Studies
Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology
Criminology
Dr Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Faculty of Divinity
Divinity
Dr Alisha Lola Jones, Faculty of Music
Musicology
Dr Jo Lysons, Centre for Family Research
Developmental Psychology and Family Research
Mr Richard Merrick, Cambridge Public Health
Clinical Medicine
Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA, Jesus College
Psychoanalysis
Dr Douglas Momberg, Department of Archaeology
Human Evolutionary Studies
Dr Eleanor O'Gorman, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Development Studies
Professor Robin Osborne, Faculty of Classics
Classics
Dr Holly Porter, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
African Studies and Social Anthropology
Dr Mezna Qato, Newnham College
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor John Robb, Department of Archaeology
Archaeology
Dr Garima Sahai, Department of Geography
Geography
Dr Rachell Sánchez-Rivera, Department of Sociology
Sociology
Professor Helena Sanson, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics - Italian
Professor Samita Sen, Faculty of History
History
Dr Sarah Steele, Jesus College
Public Policy
Dr Amy Tobin, Department of History of Art
Visual Arts
Dr Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
International Relations
