Gender in the humanities

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Introduction
Potential research projects
Current / recent research projects
Potential supervisors
Further information

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The Gender in the Humanities Research Group is a cross-faculty interdisciplinary group established in 1992, which explores gender issues in representation, texts and cultural production, and which has published two collectively authored texts of which the most recent is Women, Scholarship and Criticism, eds. Bellamy, Laurence and Perry. Co-chaired by Professor Gill Perry, the group organises a programme of seminars, gallery visits and conferences, including collaborative seminar days.

We welcome applications in areas which correspond to current staff research interests. We look for detailed and well thought-out proposals, which set out specific research questions and outline the originality of your topic or approach. If you would like to discuss your ideas informally before submitting an application, please contact the department.

Qualifications available:: PhD or MPhil
Fees:: For detailed information on current fees visit Fees and funding.
Entry requirements:: Minimum 2:1 (or equivalent)

Potential research projects

The group welcomes enquiries from students interested in research projects in these and related areas.

Current / recent research projects

Florine and the Marcel Wave: Femininity and Radicalism in the work of Florine Stettheimer, 1913–1941
Framing Hair: Serial Strategies in Contemporary Art

Potential supervisors

Dr Emma Barker - French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Professor Gill Perry - Modern and contemporary art; eighteenth-century British art, especially portraiture; art and gender.
Dr Susie West - Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture and material culture; gender and architecture.