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RESEARCH PROFILE : Lisa Downing

I am currently Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Exeter, UK. (Click here for my University web page)

I am also Director of the newly established Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe (CISSGE), in the School of Arts, Languages and Literatures at Exeter.

I am an experienced doctoral supervisor and welcome enquiries from potential PhD students in any of my areas of research expertise.

Email: L.M.Downing@exeter.ac.uk

Write to: School of Arts, Languages and Literatures, University of Exeter, Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive, Exeter, EX4 4QH, UK.

Research interests:

History and theories of sexuality; modern critical theory (psychoanalysis; queer theory; ethics); death studies; nineteenth-century French writing, thought and culture; Decadence and the fin de siècle; cinema theory.

Publications:

AUTHORED BOOKS:

Downing, Lisa Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth- Century French Literature Legenda (Oxford: EHRC, 2003)
Downing, Lisa Patrice Leconte, French Film Directors Series (MUP, 2004)
Downing, Lisa Michel Foucault (CUP, 2008)[Forthcoming]
Downing, Lisa and Libby Saxton (co-authored) Cinema and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (New York and London: Routledge, 2008-09)[Forthcoming]

EDITED BOOKS:

Capitanio, Sarah, Lisa Downing, Paul Rowe and Nick White (eds), Currencies: Fiscal Fortunes and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005)
Nobus, Dany and Lisa Downing (eds), Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/ Perspectives on Psychoanalysis (London: Karnac Books, 2006)
Downing, Lisa and Sue Harris (eds), From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
Harkness, Nigel, Lisa Downing, Sonya Stephens and Tim Unwin (eds), Birth and Death : Essays in Nineteenth-Century French Culture, 'Faux titres' ( Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)

GUEST EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS

Cryle, Peter and Lisa Downing (eds), Special Double Issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality, on ‘Feminine Sexual Pathologies’ (forthcoming, January and May 2009), 18,1&2, ISSN:10434070

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

Downing, Lisa, 'Feminist Fictions of the Flesh (?): Alina Reyes's Le Boucher and Rachilde's La Marquise de Sade', Journal of Romance Studies, 2, 1, Spring, 2002, 51-64
Downing, Lisa, 'Between Men and Women; Beyond Heterosexuality: Limits and Possibilities of the Erotic in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed and Patrice Leconte's La Fille sur le pont', Romance Studies, University of Swansea, 20, 1, June, 2002, 29-40
Downing, Lisa, 'Death and the Maidens: A Century of Necrophilia in Female-Authored Textual Production' in French Cultural Studies, 14, 2, June, 2003, 157-168
Downing, Lisa, 'On the Limits of Sexual Ethics: The Phenomenology of Autassassinophilia' in Sexuality and Culture, 8, 1, Winter, 2004, 3-17
Downing, Lisa, 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Aesthetic Violence and Motiveless Murder in French Decadent Fiction' in French Studies, 58, 2, April, 2004, 189-204
Downing, Lisa, 'The Measure of Sexual Dysfunction: A Plea for Theoretical Limitlessness' in Transformations: Region, Culture, Society, special issue on 'Regions of Sexuality', ed. Iain Morland and Wendy O'Brien no. 8, July, 2004
Downing, Lisa, 'French Cinema's New Sexual Revolution: Postmodern Porn and Troubled Genre' in French Cultural Studies , Special Issue on 'New Directions in French Cinema' ed. Sue Harris, 15, 3, October, 2004, 265-80
Downing, Lisa and Dany Nobus (co-authored ), 'The Iconography of Asphyxiophilia: From Fantasmatic Fetish to Forensic Fact' in Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, November, 2004, 1-15
Downing, Lisa, 'The Birth of the Beast: Death-Driven Masculinity in Monneret, Zola and Freud' in Dix-Neuf, fully refereed online journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, no. 5, September 2005, 28-46
Downing, Lisa, 'Baise-moi or the Ethics of the Desiring Gaze' in Nottingham French Studies, special issue on 'Focalizing the Body: Recent Women's Writing and Filmmaking in France' ed. Gill Rye and Carrie Tarr, 45, 3, Autumn, 2006, 52-65
Downing, Lisa, 'Reviewing the Sexual Relation: Levinas and Fim' in Film-Philosophy, Special Issue on 'The Occluded Relation: Levinas and Cinema’, ed. Sarah Cooper, 11, 2, 2007, 49-65
Downing, Lisa, 'Murder in the Feminine: Madame Lafarge and the Sexualization of the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Woman’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Special Issue on ‘Feminine Sexual Pathologies’, ed. Peter Cryle and Lisa Downing, 18, 2 (forthcoming May 2009)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Downing, Lisa, ''Ecstasies and Agonies: The 'Oceanic Feeling', God and Sexuality in Baudelaire and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam' in (Un)Faithful Texts: Religion in French and Francophone Literature from the 1780s to the 1980s , ed. Paul Cooke and Jane Lee (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2000) 53-66
Downing, Lisa, 'Sexuality' in Companion to Modern French Thought, ed. Christopher John Murray (London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004), 582-7
Downing, Lisa, 'Perversion, Historicity, Ethics ' in Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/ Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, edited Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing ( London: Karnac Books, 2006), 149-163
Downing, Lisa,'Thanatos' , 'Necrophilia', 'Erotic Asphyxiation', 'Charles Baudelaire', 'Pétrus Borel', in Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature , ed. Gaëtan Brulotte and John Phillips (London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006)
Downing, Lisa,‘Beyond Safety: Erotic Asphyxiation and the Limits of S/M Discourse' in Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism ed. Darren Langridge and Meg Barker (Palgrave, 2007), 119-32
Downing, Lisa,'Polanski's Deneuve: Frigidity and Feminism' in From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve, edited Lisa Downing and Sue Harris (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), 14-28
Downing, Lisa, ‘Necrophilia' in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Sex and Culture: Volume 5, The Nineteenth Century and the Victorian Age, ed. Susan Mumm (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2008)[in press ]
Downing, Lisa , 'Sexual Variation' in 'The Nineteenth Century', ed. Ivan Crozier, vol. of The Cultural History of Sexuality, general ed. Julie Peakman (Oxford: Berg, 2009) [forthcoming]

REVIEW ARTICLES (OVER 1500 WORDS)

Downing, Lisa, Review of Tim Dean, Beyond Sexuality (Chicago University Press, 2000) in Archives of Sexual Behaviour, 34, 2, April, 2005, 255-57
Downing, Lisa, Review of Rothenberg, Foster and Zizek (eds), P erversion and the Social Relation (Duke University Press, 2003) in Archives of Sexual Behaviour 36,1, February 2007,127-28

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