Gender Studies
Most of the members of the School of LLC whose work engages with gender studies
are also members of the Gender, Discourse, Identities (GDI) research cluster,
established in 2010. This research cluster is one of the larger strands of the Gender,
Culture and the Knowledge Society Advanced Research Consortium (known
as Gender ARC), which brings Arts, Humanities and Social Science scholars from
NUI, Galway and UL into productive exchange.
The GDI cluster unites members of the School of LLC with scholars from the School
of Humanities and the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUI, Galway, and
with scholars from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at the
University of Limerick.
Currently facilitated by Dr Maria Scott (French) and Dr Lorraine Kelly (Spanish) of
NUI, Galway, the GDI research cluster draws on established NUI, Galway and UL
strengths in literary and cultural studies, languages, linguistics, sociology and
women’s studies. This cross-fertilization of research activities will result in a
heightened understanding of how gender is constructed, performed, challenged and
renewed in different texts and contexts in the language of everyday exchange, in
creative industries (literature, film, visual arts), in the intellectual arena (cultural
criticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis) and in public discourse (media, politics, law
and governance). Participants in this work package have published scholarly articles,
have edited books, have published and are preparing monographs, and have obtained
external funding (NUI-G: IRCHSS, Mexican Government, EU Commission, etc.; UL:
IRCHSS, DFA, etc.) in the general field of inscriptions, interrogations and
explorations of masculine/feminine identities in linguistics, literature, historical texts,
philosophy and film.