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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies

 

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, Cambridge Public Health

 

Public Policy


Dr Amy Tobin, Department of History of Art

 

Visual Arts


Dr Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies

 

International Relations


Dr Vicky Young, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

 

East Asian Studies