Affiliated Institutions and Individuals

We are in the process of making links with a number of national and international individuals and Centres/ groups. Click on the relevant tabs to see details of our current affiliated Centres/groups and individuals. (Please note that the links to the web pages for these Centres/ groups and individuals open in a new window.)

Affiliated Centres

These are academic Centres whose research expertise complements CISSGE's three major research strands, and whose methodological approaches are commensurate with our mission statement. Affiliation between Centres provides the opportunity for research networking and shared project management, travel opportunities, and other forms of national and  international collaboration.

• Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED), University of Queensland, Australia
  Current collaborations and research projects: Professor Lisa Downing is an affiliate of CHED and is currently working with a team of CHED researchers, and other international scholars, on a project on "Transgression and Discipline in the History of Sexuality". This is the third CHED-CISSGE research project.
  In previous years, the team worked on "Feminine Sexual Pathologies", a project resulting in the  publication of a Special Issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, co-edited by the Centres' respective Directors, Prof. Peter Cryle and Prof. Lisa Downing; and "The Natural and the Normal in the History of Sexuality", a project resulting in the forthcoming publication of a Special Issue of Psychology and Sexuality (September 2010).
  In 2008, CISSGE hosted Dr Elizabeth Stephens of CHED as a British Academy Research Fellow for a project on "Public Exhibitions of Human Bodies in British Anatomy Museums".

• Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter
  Current collaborations and research projects: We are in the process of making formal links between the two Centres. Several members of CISSGE are also members of the Centre for Medical History.
  The Centre for Medical History's conference Sexual Histories: Bodies and Desires Uncovered (July '07), organised by Dr Sarah Toulalan and Dr Kate Fisher, included CISSGE members and affiliates among its delegates, and CISSGE's Director, Prof. Lisa Downing, delivered a keynote address.
  The two Centres hope to host joint seminars and conferences in the future.
  

• Birkbeck Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (BIGS), University of London, UK. Key members of BIGS (Dr Heike Bauer and Dr Matt Cook) are individual affiliates of CISSGE. The two Centres hope to host joint events in the future.

Individual Affiliates

Individual affiliates are leading national and international scholars in areas relevant to CISSGE's main research strands, many of whom are currently, or were formerly, involved in research collaborations with members of the Centre. By building a network of affiliates, CISSGE will strengthen its public profile and extend dialogue beyond the geographical centre of Exeter.

The list below indicates brief details of affiliates' research interests. For their full profiles and details of publications, please click on the affiliate's name to visit their personal web pages, where available.

• Dr Andrew Asibong (Lecturer in French, Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - French cinema and its 're-invented relations' (Denis, Ozon, Resnais, et al.); contemporary French and francophone literatures (esp. Marie NDiaye); the interface between the queer, the hybrid, and the fantastic.

• Dr Meg Barker (Lecturer in Psychology, Open University, UK) - sexual subcultures esp. bisexualities, sado-masochism, non-monogamies; relationship and sexual therapy.

• Dr Heike Bauer (Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Gender Studies, Director of Birkbeck Institue of Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - sexology and literature 1860s-1930s; C19th and early C20th same-sex discourses; European (esp. German) influences on British sexual debates; translation, migration and the history of sexuality; women and cross-dressing; C19th studies of perversion and civilisation.

• Dr Chiara Beccalossi (Sessional Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - nineteenth and twentieth-century European history of medicine (particularly British, French and Italian); female same-sex desires; criminal anthropology; comparative history.

• Dr Claire Boyle (Lecturer in French, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) - twentieth-century and contemporary French literature, thought and film, especially issues of identity, alterity, testimony, marginality, gender and sexuality; autobiographical and other representations of subjectivity.

• Dr Matt Cook (Senior Lecturer in History and Gender Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK) - Homosexuality and the city; life writing and sexuality; queer domesticities; nineteenth and twentieth century queer literature, theatre and film

• Dr Ivan Crozier (Lecturer, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh) - history of psychiatry and sexology, particularly British; homosexuality; history of the body; forensic psychiatry.

• Prof. Peter Cryle (Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED), University of Queensland, Australia) - eighteenth-century French libertine fiction; the history of sexual "pathologies" in the European nineteenth century (esp. frigidity); middle-brow French fiction (the roman de mœurs) and its relationship with medical discourse.

• Prof. Tim Dean [Delivered CISSGE's Inaugural Lecture in Feb '07] (Professor of English, University at Buffalo SUNY) - psychoanalysis & sexuality; continental philosophy; sexual subcultures; homosexualities; poetics & aesthetic theory; queer theory; disability studies.

• Dr Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies) - history of philosophy and feminist philosophy; philosophical conceptions of sexual difference in the ancient and early modern periods; arguments for the sameness or difference of the sexes; Renaissance feminist treatises in (English, French and Italian); sexuality and sexual difference.

• Prof. Dennis Denisoff [Formerly Visiting Professor at CISSGE, Feb-April '07] (Associate Professor and University Research Chair, Department of English, Ryerson University, Canada) - queer theory; sexual visuality; cultural invisibility; Victorian pulp; British decadence and aestheticism; paganism and eco-paganism.

• Prof. Derek Duncan [Delivered keynote paper at the Second CISSGE PG Conference, Sept. '08] (Professor of Italian Cultural Studies, University of Bristol) - sexuality and gender in modern Italian culture; intersections of race, sexuality and nation in postcolonial Italy, migration, queer theory.

• Dr Bart Eeckhout (Associate Professor of English and American Literature, University of Antwerp; Director, Belgian interuniversity M.A. program in American Studies) - queer fiction in English; sexuality and urban studies (esp. New York); relations between queer theory and LGBT activism.

• Dr Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) - Catalan national and sexual identities; gay and lesbian studies.

• Dr Michael Finn (Adjunct Professor of French, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) – French sexology in the late-19th century; the impact of medico-sexological discourse on fin-de-siècle literature; Rachilde; Proust.

• Dr Noreen Giffney (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy programme, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Lecturer in Women's Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick) - queer theory; lesbian studies; feminist theory; new queer cinema; medieval apocalypticism.

• Dr Robert Gillett (Senior Lecturer in German, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) -  the manifestations of queer theory and practice in German culture, esp. the work of the groundbreaking bisexual German writer and ethnologist Hubert Fichte; the intersections between queer, AIDS and film.

• Dr Lesley Hall (Senior Archivist, Wellcome Library, London, and Honorary Lecturer in History of Medicine, University College London) - gender, sexuality, modernity and social change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in Britain; history of birth control, abortion and eugenics; social purity and sexual reform; sexually-transmitted diseases; sex education; marriage; masculinity and male sexuality; experimental lifestyles and sexual utopianism.

• Dr Jason Hartford (Lecturer in French, University of Stirling) - queer theory and its relationship with biology: sexuality and religion; discourses of thinness and masculinity; sexual themes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature.

• Dr Owen Heathcote (Honorary Visiting Reader in Modern French Studies, University of Bradford, UK) - the relation between violence, gender and representation in modnern French literature (esp .Balzac, Collard, Duras, Dustan, Guibert, Guyotat,  Hyvrard, Jourdan, Wittig) and film; queer theory.

• Dr Kate Ince (Reader in French Film and Gender Studies, University of Birmingham, UK) - French, European and auteur cinema; feminist, gender and queer theory.

• Dr Joanna Mizielinska (Assistant Professor, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland) - Queer theory; feminist philosophy; the problem of the exclusion of the Other in feminist thought; new concepts of kinship; translation of Anglo-American queer theory in European contexts, The Americanisation of sexuality studies.

• Dr Alison Moore (Senior Lecturer in Francophone Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) - the history of sexual "pathologies" esp. sadomasochism, frigidity; the cultural history of excretory taboos; sexual pathologisation in historical memory of WW2.

• Dr Iain Morland (Lecturer in Cultural Criticism, Cardiff University, UK) - the history and ethics of the medical management of intersexuality (conditions of ‘ambiguous' sex); queer theory; cultural studies of science; psychoanalysis.

• Dr Douglas Morrey (Associate Professor in French, University of Warwick, UK) - French cinema, 1958-present (esp. Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette); contemporary French writing as it intersects with sexuality and thought, in particular what Michel Houellebecq and Maurice G. Dantec have to tell us about the future of sex, war, science and religion.

• Dr Becky Munford (Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University, UK) - twentieth-century women's writing (esp. Angela Carter); the European Gothic and the erotic; third wave feminism, post-feminism and popular culture.

• Dr Catherine O'Rawe (Senior Lecturer in Italian, University of Bristol, UK) - gender and Italian neo-realism; melodrama, neo-realism and the status and reception of female stars (Jennifer Jones, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani); the 'woman's film' in Italy; transnational feminisms and the figure of the femme fatale in cultural transmission.

• Michael O'Rourke (Research Associate, Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College, Dublin, Ireland) - queer theory; continental philosophy (especially Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Butler, Irigaray, Caputo, Nancy); histories of sexuality; disability studies.

• Dr Julie Peakman (Fellow of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK) -  the history of pornography; histories of sexuality in eighteenth-century England; women's writing.

• Dr Alexandra Petrescu (Postdoctoral researcher in Political Sciences, Cambridge, UK) - twentieth century women's movements and feminisms in Western and Eastern Europe; comparative research of citizenship in Europe; gender and political representation in francophone countries; women's empowerment and gender equality; comparative politics; role of women in authoritarian regimes.

• Prof. Gill Plain (Professor of English Literature and Popular Culture, University of St. Andrews) - gender, sexuality and the body in crime fiction; constructions of masculinity and national identity; gender and sexuality in British cinema; women's writing of the First and Second World Wars; feminist and queer theory.

• Prof. Keith Reader (Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Glasgow University, UK) - cross-dressing in French film; abjection and the role of the phallus; the gendered dimension of Parisian cultural topography. 

• Dr Emma Rees (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Chester, UK) - gender and sexuality; representations of the vagina in literature and film; psychoanalysis and sexuality; cultural discourses of masturbation; 19th-century gynaecology.

• Dr Nick Rees-Roberts (Lecturer in French Film Studies, University of Bristol, UK) - Anglo-American and French queer critique; gender and sexuality in contemporary French cinema, particularly queer cinema through auteur film (Chéreau, Honoré, Lifshitz, Ozon, Téchiné), subcultural and avant-garde video production, and gay colonial and postcolonial pornography (Cadinot, Jean-Noël René Clair, Citébeur).

• Dr Charlotte Ross (Lecturer in Italian Studies, University of Birmingham, UK) - social and cultural constructions and representations of genders, sexualities, queer identities and embodiment.

• Dr Elizabeth Stephens [Formerly British Academy Visiting Fellow at CISSGE, May-August '07] (Research Fellow, Centre for the History of European Discourses (CHED), University of Queensland, Australia) - post-structuralism, gender studies and queer theory; Jean Genet; the history of exhibitions of the body (popular and medical).

• Dr Nikki Sullivan (Associate Professor, Literary and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia; Director of the Somatechnics Research Centre) - theories of subjectivity and textuality; queer theory; postmodern ethics; the relationship between reading, writing and the body; visual culture.

• Dr Calvin Thomas (Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Studies, Georgia State University, USA) - masculinity studies; psychoanalysis; queer heterosexualities; abjection; embodiment; postmodern culture.