Lisa Downing

🎉New SI of Paragraph published! 🎉

🎉Paragraph Prize 2026🎉 The editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publication before 30 Sept 2026. Articles can be on any topic appropriate to the journal’s remit: to explore critical theory & its applications. 1/3

@ParagraphEUP Prize 2026 announced. Submit articles by end of September '26. We look forward to reading them.

Modern Languages as a discipline has been targeted too hard & too long in the UK for a range of nefarious, anti-intellectual, xenophobic cultural reasons. Sign the petition against the outrageous proposal to close languages programmes @ University of Nottingham, a sector leader.

Paragraph Prize-Winners 2023-2024 announced:

Publication is still 6 months away but we have pre-orderability and a cover design. nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814…

I do love a bargain! Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" titles reduced from £26.99 to £16.99, including my edited Critical Freedoms (2023) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-critical-…

New SI of @ParagraphEUP on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" now published. The SI is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill and Isabelle's article is the free-to-read one. My article on "reactionary feminism" and why we need *more* not *less* female freedom is also here.

Honoured to see “self-fulness” featured in this poem by @natasharoses87

@natasharoses87 How wonderful!

With reference to the book Selfish Women by @ProfLisaDowning

The Paragraph editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publication before 30 Sept. 2025. Submissions can be on any topic in our remit: to explore critical theory & its application to literature, arts & culture. 1/3

Anyone wishing to hear all/ part of the event will find a Zoom link at the URL.

I'll be speaking at this conference in Vienna on female rage. (2-4 April.) My argument that anger, while valid, is less politically effective than often claimed, will borrow from the anti-affective thesis in my (forthcoming) book Against Affect. ifk.ac.at/kalender-detai…

The latest attack on the humanities, and especially the discipline of Modern Languages, in #UKHE is the thread of closures at Cardiff. Please sign and share this petition. change.org/p/save-mlang-a…

Wishing all my friends, near and far... A very happy new year! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Boldog új évet! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Bonne Année! Un an nou ferecit! С Новым Годом! Frohes Neues Jahr! Sťastný nový rok! Feliz Ano Novo! Честита Нова Година! Gott Nytt År! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

Greetings of the season, Xers.

@stinaface Just followed you "over there". I intend to maintain both accounts.

Slowly trying to reckon with being here still (given it's becoming unusable) - have also moved to the other place where my handle is the same - please find me!

I am, for now, on both Bsky & X. The reason? I joke about being "the perfect centrist" - & there is no centrist echo chamber. I don't want to see only "Left" or "Right" viewpoints. How centrist am I? Here's the result of a test I did. I'm *that* dot. Right in the middle.

I am, by the way, simultaneously over at the other place... bsky.app/profile/profli…

It's beginning to feel a lot like.... the season when I put Freddie Mercury on the top of my tree.