The following international academics in Sexuality and Gender Studies work in collaboration with researchers at Birmingham and enjoy a special relationship with our research network:
- Dr Andrew Asibong, Reader in Film and Cultural Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Keywords: spectral kinship, 'blank' subjectivities and sexualities, queer object relations
- Dr Meg John Barker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University, UK
Keywords: openly non-monogamous relationships; BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism); bisexuality; sex and relationship therapy; self-help literature; communication and consent; non-binary gender
- Professor Heike Bauer, Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History, University of London, UK
Keywords: histories of gender and sexuality since the nineteenth century; cultural and critical theory; sexology; translation; queer, lesbian and women’s writing & graphic narratives
- Dr Lara Cox, independent scholar, Paris, France
Keywords: The avant-garde in the visual arts (theatre, installation art, cinema); popular culture (stand-up, internet feminism, "postfeminism”); intersectionality, decolonial feminism, and queer theory.
- Professor Peter Cryle, Emeritus Professor, Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia
Keywords: history of sexuality; Michel Foucault; frigidity; normality
- Robert J. Davidson, ARC-GS Program Manager and PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Keywords: Institutionalization of social movements; gay and lesbian studies; LGBT; processes of intersexualization; masculinity; queer theory; Dutch politics
- Dr Oliver Davis, Associate Professor of French, University of Warwick, UK
Keywords: queer theory (AHRC-funded project with Hector Kolias on Queer Theory in France); homosexuality in modern and contemporary French literature; continental philosophy
- Professor Tim Dean, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Keywords: barebacking; queer theory; psychoanalysis; Michel Foucault; pornography; sexual practice; consent; disgust
- Professor Dennis Denisoff, McFarlin Professor of English, University of Tulsa, USA
Keywords: aesthetics and politics of Decadence; gay male prose; sexual visuality
- Alex Dymock, Lecturer in Criminology and Law, Royal Holloway, University of London
Keywords: crimino-legal status of sex and its representations; feminist theory; queer theory; history of genders and sexualities; constructions of the sex offender.
- Dr Bart Eeckhout, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Keywords: representations of sexuality and gender in English and American literature; queer theory; transnational LGBT and queer activism; queer interdisciplinarity
- Dr Noreen Giffney, Lecturer in Counselling, Ulster University Ireland
Keywords: queer theory; clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis; discourses of desire in the writings of Wilfred Bion; feminist theory
- Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist, Wellcome Trust, and author, London, UK
Keywords: history of gender and sexuality in the UK in the modern era; women in medicine and science
- Dr Scott Herring, James H. Rudy Professor of English, Indiana University, USA
Keywords: queer theory; American studies; studies of sexuality and space (especially region and ruralism); material culture and object studies
- Dr Rachel Moss, Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, UK
Keywords: late medieval history and literature; family, especially fatherhood; homosociality; adolescence and sexual conduct; literary culture.
- Dr Liza Mügge, Associate Professor in Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Keywords: Gender; ethnicity; intersectionality and politics; transnationalism
- Dr Denis Provencher, Professor of French and Italian, University of Arizona, USA
Keywords: gender and sexuality studies; contemporary French civilization and cultural studies; Islam and Maghrebi cultures in France
- Professor Emma Rees, Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, University of Chester, UK
Keywords: gender; sexuality; representation; vagina; FGM; transgender; identity; embodiment; vagina dentata myth
- Dr Nick Rees-Roberts, Professeur des Universités, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), Paris, France
Keywords: French queer cinema and queer theory; fashion, gender and visual culture with particular emphasis on fashion film and men's fashion imagery
- Dr Elizabeth Stephens, ARC Future Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia
Keywords: queer theory, feminism, histories of the body, history of normality
- Dr Nikki Sullivan, Associate of Professor Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
Keywords: trans* kinship; the work of John Money; somatechnics; queer theory
- Dr Helen Vassallo, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Exeter, UK
Keywords: women's autobiography, women and war, gender and Islam