Intersecting Identities
We bring together specialists in the study of multiple, intersecting identities and work to develop methods and praxis that are interdisciplinary and cross-cutting. We research the ways in which identity is understood in and through language, and in historically and culturally specific contexts. Identities examined include gendered, sexual, religious, national identity markers, and the intersections between them.
Researchers
Dr Elliot Evans: Specializes in queer theory and gender studies in modern languages.
Professor Lisa Downing: specialises in Modern Critical Theory, interdisciplinary sexuality and gender studies, and the history of diagnostic and cultural concepts, with a focus on questions of exceptionality, difficulty, and (ab)normality as they are represented and understood in cultural, medical, and political fields.
Professor Louise Hardwick: specialises postcolonial Francophone literature, world literature, and women's writing.