TORCH is very happy to have awarded the TORCH Humanities and Identities Scholarship to Calum Stewart. This award is funded through the Mellon Foundation, and will enable Calum to study the on the MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the forthcoming academic year.
Calum writes:
"To be Queer often feels to be apart from history. For many people, popular history remains rooted in the family, an often paternal lineage that consigns women and LGBTQ people to the margins. I'm interested in Queer stories across the humanities that rediscover our inheritance.
The MSt in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oxford will allow me to utilise feminist and queer theory to make sense of this Queer legacy. The interdisciplinary approach was a particular draw. My undergraduate degree combined English and History and I am keen to continue to explore the interplay between the two.
My research will focus on the discourse around Queer male citizenship following the Second World War in England and Scotland. I hope to explore the delay between England's partial legalization of homosexuality in 1967, and Scotland's counterpart legislation in 1981 using reviews of contemporary queer literature in newspapers and Church magazines.
I talked myself out of applying to Oxford for my undergraduate degree, having decided that it would be too expensive. Six years later, I am very grateful to TORCH and to the Andrew Mellon Foundation for supporting me through my masters at the University. I am incredibly excited for all the next year has in store".
Find out more about the Intersectional Humanities Programme at TORCH, and the Queer Intersections Oxford Network.
