Course design and teaching:

The Body in Feminist Theory (RMA)

This course familiarizes students with conceptual and theoretical approaches to analysing the body, embodiment, and the embodied subject through its focus on the place of the corporeal in various interdisciplinary contexts (queer and feminist theory, feminist Marxist theory, critical race studies, disability studies, transgender studies, and posthuman theory).  In approaching these thematics, the course engages with a variety of different media and texts. Topics include; technologies of power and the production of gendered and sexed bodies; embodied and emotional labour under capitalist production; racialisation and the flesh; crip and disability politics and activism; transgender embodiment; and coporeality beyond the human.

Feminist Approaches to Art and Affect (MA):

This course examines, with the support of gender, queer, critical race, and post- colonial theories, different feminist approaches to the study of art and affect, with a specific focus on anger, shame, hope, pain, and depression. With reference to art practices, the course explores the complex interplay between affect, emotion, and feeling. It does so through a critical interrogation of how certain affects and emotions adhere to bodies, cultures and sexualities; how they function as social power to pathologise others, and how reconfiguring the possibilities of affects and emotions is necessary for feminist, queer and anti-racist politics. How does affect operate in artistic and activist practices? What affects, emotions and sensations can feminist art evoke? By studying a constellation of theories and artistic practices, the course investigates the centrality of affect for understanding social and political life.

Contemporary Feminist Debates (RMA):

This course is designed to introduce RMA students to current scholarship in feminist and gender studies from the Graduate Gender Programme at UU. Guest teachers will discuss their intellectual itinerary and formation as researchers. The legacies of feminist struggles and thought will be traced to explore the political, cultural and theoretical connections and contestations that inform research today in gender studies scholarship at UU.In this way, the course aims to offer students a wide range of methodological and theoretical tools that will allow for contextualization and positioning of research topics in Gender Studies from interdisciplinary perspectives including postcolonial studies, queer and trans studies, critical race studies, critical security studies, settler colonial studies, and feminist historiogra

Postcolonial Europe (BA)

Issues in Postcoloniality (RMA)

RMA Special Gender Studies Tutorial (Focus area: biopolitics/ necropolitics and human/non-human life)