# Gender and Technologies
**Source**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/groups/gender-and-technologies
**Parent**: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/engage-and-innovate/consultancy
Group leader:
[Dr Eric White](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/eric-white)
Contact:
[ewhite@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:ewhite@brookes.ac.uk)
[+44 (0)1865 483912]](tel:+44 (0)1865 483912])
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## About us
Since the early modern period, literature has explored how technology can transform human experience. Our research reveals the intersections between humans and machines, focusing in particular on questions of gendered identity and embodiment.
We have particular strengths in modernist avant-garde cultures, speculative fiction, twentieth-century ‘reading machines’, and the interface between literature and AI.
Our researchers are considering how augmented reality brings art to life, how computing technology positions us in real and virtual worlds, and how contemporary dramatists are building on the legacy of nineteenth-century scientific innovation. Other group members are working on the technology of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and artificial constructions of the male body in contemporary prose fiction.
### Part of
- [School of Education, Humanities and Languages](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/ehl "School of Education, Humanities and Languages")
### Related courses
- [Creative Writing (MA / PGDip / PGCert)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/creative-writing)
- [English Literature (BA (Hons))](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/english-literature)
- [English Literature with Creative Writing (BA (Hons))](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/english-literature-with-creative-writing)
## Leadership
### Dr Eric White
- [ewhite@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:ewhite@brookes.ac.uk)
Associate Professor in American Literature
[View profile for Eric White](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/eric-white)
## Membership
Staff members
Collaborators
- Staff
- Collaborators
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### Staff
| Name | Role | Email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Dr Carina Bartleet](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/carina-bartleet) | Associate Professor and Programme Director for Drama, Theatre and Acting; MA Creative Writing; Communication, Media and Culture | [c.e.bartleet@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:c.e.bartleet@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor Katharine Craik](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/katharine-craik) | Director of Research and Professor in Early Modern Literature (1500-1750), Think Human Festival Director | [kcraik@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:kcraik@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor Alex Goody](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/alex-goody) | Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture | [agoody@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:agoody@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Professor Daniel Lea](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/daniel-lea) | Professor of Contemporary Literature | [dlea@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:dlea@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Dr Andrea Macrae](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/andrea-macrae) | Associate Professor of Narrative | [andrea.macrae@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:andrea.macrae@brookes.ac.uk) |
| [Dr Niall Munro](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/niall-munro) | Senior Lecturer in American Literature & Director of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre | [niall.munro@brookes.ac.uk](mailto:niall.munro@brookes.ac.uk) |
## Projects
Active projects
- Active projects
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### Active projects
| Project title and description | Investigator(s) | Funder(s) | Dates |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **[Avant-Gardes and Speculative Technology (AGAST)](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/projects/agast)** | [Dr Eric White](https://www.brookes.ac.uk/profiles/staff/eric-white) | [European Commission](https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en "European Commission"), [CILIP](https://www.cilip.org.uk/ "CILIP: The library and information association") | From: September 2014 |
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