College position(s)
Fellow
Subject
Human, Social and Political Sciences
Specialising in
Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
Dr Shannon Philip
Degrees, Awards and Prizes
BA (UEA) MSc (Oxford) PhD (Oxford)
Research themes
I am a queer-feminist sociologist of colour based. My research focuses on the relationship between masculinities, femininities and sexualities in cities of the Global South. I have carried out long-term ethnographic and qualitative fieldwork in New Delhi and Johannesburg exploring questions of men's violence towards women and queer people, embodied performances of class, gender and sexuality, as well as the transforming articulations of heteropatriarchal and heteronormative power. My research is intersectional, focusing on the ways in which race, class, caste, sexuality and gender operate in everyday social processes and their many consequences.
Finally, I am a fan of the queer-feminist writer and thinker Virginia Woolf. Woolf came to Girton College in October 1928 and her key book A Room of One’s Own was based on this visit. I am interested in understanding Woolf’s approach to gender and sexuality and what contemporary relevance this might have.
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