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Lisa I have recently accepted a Chair at Birmingham. From September 2012, I will be Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Faculty Member, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE)
University of Exeter, Department of Modern Languages
Chair of French Discourses of Sexuality
About
Originally trained in modern European languages and literatures at the Universities of London and Oxford, I read for a DPhil under the late Prof. Malcolm Bowie on French literature and discourses of necrophilia from 1996-1999 (published as Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature in 2003). Since then I have worked at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Exeter, and have specialised in the history of (European and American) discourses of sexuality, as well as in critical theory and film studies. My principal publications are on theories of sexual perversion, Michel Foucault, ethical philosophy and film, and queer theory. I was appointed to a Chair in French Discourses of Sexuality at Exeter in 2006, where I founded the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe.
In 2009, I was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded to "outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise". This prize provided me with two years of funded research leave from Exeter from 2010-2012. During this time I completed a book about the gendering and othering of the figure of the murderer from 1830-the present day (The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer, in press with Chicago University Press, to be published in February 2013). I also began work on a co-authored critical study (with Dr Iain Morland and Dr Nikki Sullivan) of American sexologist John Money's diagnostic concepts. My section explores Money's contribution to the controversial perversion/ paraphilia diagnosis.
I have recently accepted a Chair at Birmingham. From September 2012, I will be Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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