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Professor Lisa Downing is a Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, where she has held a Chair since 2012. Previously, she worked at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Exeter. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford under Prof. Malcolm Bowie, focusing on French literature and discourses of necrophilia, later published as Desiring the Dead (2003). Her research explores cultural and historical understandings of abnormality, extremity, and exceptionality through feminist, queer, and Foucauldian lenses.
- Education: DPhil (Oxford, 1999), MPhil (London), BA (London)
Her current projects include Against Affect (2026), a Leverhulme-funded critique of affective discourse, and Beyond Monsters, Moral Panics, and MAPs, examining the sex offender construct. She co-authored Fuckology (2015) and authored Selfish Women (2019), analyzing female figures challenging collective norms.
Her research addresses gendered violence, right-wing women, and rational critiques of identity politics. She is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2009) and currently supervises PhD students in areas like queer theory, feminist ethics, and cultural studies.
- Grants: Leverhulme Trust (2021–22), University of Birmingham’s Institute for Global Innovation (2023–24)
