Gender Studies
About this Cluster
The interdisciplinary Gender Studies cluster is headed up by Professor Lucie Armitt, an international scholar in the field, who is a Steering Group member of the international Contemporary Women’s Writing Network and an associate editor of its newly launched peer review journal Contemporary Women’s Writing (OUP). Research in this cluster focuses on the areas of nineteenth-, twentieth- and twenty-first century women’s writing, including creative and theatrical practice and performance (Armitt, Ursula Hurley and Dr Janice Allan), masculinity studies (Professor Antony Rowland), women and performance (Frances Piper) and interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory (Armitt). More recently, the work of Kendall, Hurley and Piper has added a creative and practice-led dimension to the cluster's research on gender. In 2005-6, this group was augmented by the appointment of a visiting University Campus Fellow, Professor Rainer Emig (University of Regensburg, Germany). Colleagues in this research cluster also work alongside Dr Jane Kilby, Dr Garry Crawford and Dr Gaynor Bagnall, from the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies (CCM).
Key Publications
These include:
- Lucie Armitt (with Sarah Gamble) ‘The Haunted Geometries of Sarah Waters’s Affinity’, Textual Practice, vol. 20, no. 1 (March 2006).
- Lucie Armitt, 'Haunted Childhood in Charlotte Brontë's Villette', The Yearbook of English Studies, vol. 32 (2002).
- Antony Rowland ed. (with Angelica Michelis) Choosing Tough Words: The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).