The Department of Gender Studies examines the roles, identities, and expressions of gender across cultures, histories, and individual lives.
Its work investigates how gender shapes and is shaped by social structures, language, power, and personal experience.
The department is committed to understanding both the fluidity and the rooted traditions of gender, recognizing it as a complex interplay between self-definition and collective context.
The department is led by Lecturer Nathan Barretto, who guides its inquiries and ensures that its research, dialogue, and teachings remain inclusive, critically engaged, and grounded in lived realities.
The Department of Gender Studies communicates in a language of identity-context — pairing personal self-identification with the social, cultural, and historical frameworks in which it exists.
This dual focus allows for both individual experience and collective patterns to be fully acknowledged and understood.