Dr Iain Morland - BA (Wales), MA (Sussex), MPhil (Wales), PhD (London) FHEA
Overview
Position:
Lecturer
Email:
Morland@cf.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 70406
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74502
Extension: 70406
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Research Interests
The body, in particular gender, sexuality, and body modification
Cultural theory, in particular critical theories of science, temporality, and space
Modern and postmodern theories of the self, in particular psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and identity politics
I welcome applications and informal enquiries from potential PhD students whose research plans overlap with any of these areas.
Selected Publications
Queer Theory, edited with Annabelle Willox (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
‘“The Glans Opens Like a Book”: Writing and Reading the Intersexed Body’, in Nikki Sullivan and Daniel Nourry (ed.), Body Politics, special issue of Continuum 19:3 (2005), pp. 335–348
‘Thinking with the Phallus’, [440 KB] in Mary Boyle and Lih-Mei Liao (ed.), Intersex, special issue of The Psychologist 17:8 (2004), pp. 448–450
‘Reading’s Reason’, Diacritics 31:2 (2001), pp. 85–97
'What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?', GLQ 15:2 (2009), pp. 285-312.
Publications
Edited Volumes
Intersex and After, special issue of GLQ 15:2 (2009)
Queer Theory, edited with Annabelle Willox (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005)
Regions of Sexuality, edited with Wendy O’Brien, special issue of Transformations 8 (2004)
Articles in Journals
'What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?', GLQ 15:2 (2009), pp. 285-312.
'Intimate Violations: Intersex and the Ethics of Bodily Integrity', Feminism and Psychology 18:3 (2008), 425-430.
‘Plastic Man: Intersex, Humanism and the Reimer Case’, in Neil Badmington (ed.), Posthuman Conditions, special issue of Subject Matters 3:2/4:1 (2007), pp. 81-98.
‘“The Glans Opens Like a Book”: Writing and Reading the Intersexed Body’, in Nikki Sullivan and Daniel Nourry (ed.), Body Politics, special issue of Continuum 19:3 (2005), pp. 335–348
‘Thinking with the Phallus’, [440 KB] in Mary Boyle and Lih-Mei Liao (ed.), Intersex, special issue of The Psychologist 17:8 (2004), pp. 448–450
‘Reading’s Reason’, Diacritics 31:2 (2001), pp. 85–97
‘Is Intersexuality Real?’, Textual Practice 15:3 (2001), pp. 527–547
‘Feminism and Intersexuality’, Feminist Theory 2:3 (2001), pp. 362–366
Essays in Edited Books
'Between Critique and Reform: Ways of Reading the Intersex Controversy', in Morgan Holmes (ed.), Critical Intersex (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 191-213
‘Why Five Sexes Are Not Enough’, in Noreen Giffney and Michael O’Rourke (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 33-48
‘Postmodern Intersex’ in Sharon Sytsma (ed.), Ethics and Intersex (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), pp. 319–332
‘The Injustice of Intersex: Feminist Science Studies and the Writing of a Wrong’, in Matthew Anderson (ed.), Toward a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities (New York: JAI Elsevier, 2005), pp. 53–75
Book Reviews
‘The Limit of Queer Theory’: Damien W. Riggs, Priscilla, (White) Queen of the Desert: Queer Rights/Race Privilege, for GLQ 13:4 (2007), pp. 597-599.
‘Reading Remains’: Colin Davis, After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories and Theory, for Culture Machine 7 (2005)
Research
I am interested in how bodies and selves are experienced, constituted and modified in Western cultures from the nineteenth century to the present. This includes the gendering of bodies and selves, on which I have published widely. Theorists that I have found to be especially useful are Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault, but I am interested too in phenomenological accounts of corporeality and recognition.
My published work centres on the historical development and ethical implications of the medical management of intersex—conditions of ‘ambiguous’ sex also known to some as ‘Disorders of Sex Development’. In 2002 co-founded a series of multidisciplinary seminars in London addressing intersex and related issues in health psychology, sexology and gender studies. The seminar series is titled Critical Sexology. I then co-organised in 2008 a major conference on the topic of Genital Cutting in a Globalized Age, held at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Whilst gender, sexuality and body modification have been key themes of my publications on intersex, I am increasingly addressing questions of temporality and space, for instance in my essay ‘What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?’ in GLQ. These latter themes will be explored further in future publications and research-led teaching, so I especially welcome enquiries and applications from potential PhD students in areas such as trauma and time; space and publics; and queer temporalities.
I am a Research Affiliate of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter, UK.
For more information on my work, please visit Iain Morland: Research + Writing
Biography
Currently I teach modules on gender and sexuality, and contribute to core lectures and seminars, on the Cultural Criticism undergraduate course. Additionally, I teach the Contemporary Queer Studies option on the MA in Critical and Cultural Theory, as well as delivering core MA classes on the Frankfurt School and psychoanalysis.
I was a member of the first cohort of the Cultural Criticism degree at Cardiff, graduating in English Literature and Cultural Criticism in 1999. I then studied for my MA at Sussex, following the Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change pathway of the English Literature Master’s course and graduating with distinction. I returned to Cardiff in 2000 to research my MPhil on the relation between psychoanalysis and intersex management, about which I later published in the Psychologist. My doctoral research was done at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2002-2005. In my PhD thesis I argued for a critical understanding of ethical debates about intersex treatment without recourse to problematic humanist assumptions about subjectivity, bodily integrity, and universal rights. Work derived from this project has been published in journals such as Continuum and the anthology Ethics and Intersex.
Prior to taking up my present role, I was Visiting Lecturer in Social and Health Psychology at the University of the West of England, and have also taught and researched in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. At the latter, my research focused on print and broadcast coverage of science and technology for a major Government-funded study of UK media trends.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.