MPhil Text Seminar Lecturers: Academic Year 2025-26

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
	Professor Jude Browne, Department of Politics and International Studies Politics
	Dr Lea Cantor, Faculty of Classics Philosophy
	Dr François·e Charmaille, Gonville & Caius Medieval Culture
	Dr Eleanor Drage, Centre for Future of Intelligence Future of Intelligence Studies
	Dr Daria V. Ezerova, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Film Studies
	Dr Isaias Fanlo, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Performance Studies
	Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology Criminology
	Professor Oliver Harris, University of Leicester Archaeology
	Dr Susan Imrie, Murray Edwards College Centre for Family Research
	Dr Alisha Lola Jones, Faculty of Music Musicology
	Mr Richard Merrick Cambridgeshire County Council Clinical Medicine
	Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA, Jesus College Psychoanalysis
	Dr Douglas Momberg Human Evolutionary Studies
	Dr Natalie Morningstar, Department of Social Anthropology Social Anthropology
	Dr Eleanor O'Gorman, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies Development Studies
	Professor Robin Osborne, Faculty of Classics Classics
	Dr Shannon Philip, Sociology Research Sociology
	Dr Holly Porter, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies African Studies
	Dr Mezna Qato, Newnham College and Faculty of History Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
	Dr Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft, Faculty of Divinity Divinity
	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 Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies International Relations
	Dr Vicky Young, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies East Asian Studies