Gender and Bio Cultures
Staff and postgraduate students across the University of Westminster, London, are committed to the historical, theorical, and cultural study of the body, gender, and sexuality from the 19th to the 21st century.
Interested in questions of the body, bio-cultures, gender, sexuality, and the Gothic across the arts and humanities including in literature, film, television, and the visual arts, areas of particular interest and expertise include:
Posthumanism Studies; Bio-Cultures; The Human Image; Queer Theory; Masculinity Studies; Gothic Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Writing; Representing the Body; Technology and Eroticism; Virtual Technologies and Digital Cultures.
With a wide range of staff who have conducted research and published extensively in these areas of inquiry, we welcome graduate students – from practitioners through to researchers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences - interested in working on these or any related topics.
Colleagues in this research area across the university include Simon Avery, Lennard J Davis, Harriet Evans, Monica Germanà , Emma McEvoy, Marquard Smith, Louise Sylvester, Alex Warwick, Leigh Wilson, Alexa Wright.
Read more about ongoing projects related to staff in Body, Gender, and Bio-cultures.