Race/Gender Matters
Race/Gender Matters is a research cluster that captures and concentrates research on theoretical, critical and creative engagements with race, gender and language. R/GM emerges from our shared recognition that a strong and substantial core of our research coalesces around 'new materialism,' broadly defined as the reintroduction of matter (against poststructuralism and historicism) into critical theory and applied methodologies which destabilise notions of subject and object, human and nature, self and world, and which emphasise difference and contingency as conditions of lived experience.
Members of R/GM seek to:
- develop materialist theory;
- expand its methodological applications to studies of language, literature, poetics, religion and environment; and
- explore its political and ethical dimensions in new configurations of gender and race.
Members
Dr Éadaoin Agnew
Dr Matthew Birchwood
Prof Fred Botting
Dr Tina Chanter
Dr Martin Dines
Steven J Fowler
Dr Meg Jensen
Dr Rachael Johnson
Dr Jane Jordan
Dr Marina Lambrou
Dr Marisa Linton
Dr Helen Palmer
Prof Patricia Phillippy
Associate Prof Winsome Pinnock
Dr John Stuart
Prof Andrew Teverson
Dr Sara Upstone
Symposium
On 29 June 2017 Kingston University launched the Race/Gender Matters research cluster with a symposium event. With keynotes from Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota) and Prof. Felicity Coleman (Kingston University), as well as performances from the LGBTQI breakdancing poet, Azara Meghie, and trans poet, Travis Alabanza, the event demonstrated the diverse range of research interests incorporated in this new cluster.
Amy Greenhough and Charlotte Stroud introduce the conference
Arun Saldanha
Professor Arun Saldanha (University of Minnesota) has been teaching at the Department of Geography since 2004. From 2016-18 he is Image Fund Arts, Design and Humanities Chair.
Arun Saldanha
Travis Alabanza
Travis Alabanza is a London based theatre maker, performance artist, writer that makes work surrounding their survival as a black trans person in the UK.
Azara Meghie
Azara Meghie is a black LGBTQI performer and over the last two years has been developing her solo practice where she fuses poetry with breakdancing.
Azara Meghie
Dr. Helen Palmer - Kingston University
Dr. Helen Palmer is a writer, performer and lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University
Roundtable
Names from L to R: Winsome Pinnock; Prof. Anna Hickey-Moody; Associate Prof. Sara Upstone; Prof. Tina Chanter; Prof. Felicity Coleman; Arun Saldanha
