Lisa is currently working on a new research project about selfishness and gender. She is focusing on the cultural meanings ascribed to female figures who espouse a philosophy of selfishness, including the French Decadent writer Rachilde, the American prophet of capitalism Ayn Rand, and the late British Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

In November 2014, Lisa delivered her inaugural lecture (a professor’s public address to her academic community and interested others) at the University of Birmingham on this topic.
You can watch Lisa’s inaugural lecture on YouTube here.

An article about the lecture appeared in the Times Higher Education here.

Lisa intends to develop the project presented in her lecture into a book during her 2 semesters of research leave in the academic year 2015-16.

Copies of Lisa’s new book, Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money’s Diagnostic Concepts, co-authored with Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan, arrived hot off the press at her office in Birmingham today.

You can get your hands on a copy too.

Order the book in hardback, paperback, or ebook format on the University of Chicago Press’s page here.
Read a sample on Google Books here.

A review by Belinda Morrissey appeared in leading humanities journal New Formations this month. It can be downloaded as a PDF here.

Lisa will be delivering a talk “Dying for Sex” on autoerotic death and the uses made of postmortem images at the Birmingham Arts and Science Festival on Wednesday 19th March at 6pm.
Details here.

A news story about Lisa and her forthcoming talk appeared in the Birmingham Post here.

Lisa did a reading from The Subject of Murder at Birmingham’s ‘Book to the Future’ literary festival in October.
Amy Hunt wrote this blog post about the event:
http://uoblogfest.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/the-subject-of-murder-book-to-the-future/

A couple of new reviews of The Subject of Murder have recently appeared:

“Murder, She Theorized” by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Ed.
Review by Emma Smith in LSE Review of Books.

Queer in Europe, edited by Lisa and her regular research collaborator Dr Robert Gillett, and published in 2011 by Ashgate, has just been translated into Croatian under the publishing imprint of Zagreb Pride.

Photos from the launch in Zagreb are found below ©: Matej Čelar and Zagreb Pride.

Lisa launched her book in the wonderful surroundings of  St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, London, on 3rd May 2013.

Here are some pictures of the event. The amazing book cakes were made by Lucy Bolton. Books were provided and sold by Waterstones, London Wall.
Images showing the building are copyright St Bart’s Pathology Museum.

Books waiting to be sold.

Cakes made by Lucy Bolton.

Photo by Keifer Taylor. Copyright St Bart’s Pathology Museum.

Photo by Keifer Taylor. Copyright St Bart’s Pathology Museum.

Cutting the cake. Photo by Keifer Taylor.

Lisa’s slice of the cake. Photo by Keifer Taylor.

Matthew Reisz has written a feature profiling Lisa’s career to date and her new book, The Subject of Murder. It appeared as a two-page spread in today’s Times Higher Education, and as an online story here.

Although amazon.com and amazon.co.uk currently show a publication date of 29 March or 1 April for The Subject of Murder, the book is, in fact, in the world and can be bought in hard copy or e-book format directly from the publisher’s website, here.
If you buy the e-book, you could be reading it within seconds…!