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Director

Professor Jane Desmarais

Jane Desmarais is the Director of the DRC. She is Editor-in-Chief of and Chair of the .

 

Deputy Directors

Dr Adam Alston

Adam Alston is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Theatre at Goldsmiths. He runs the , and is Co-Deputy Chair of the Decadence Research Centre.

Dr Alice Condé

Alice Condé is Lecturer at Goldsmiths, and Co-Deputy Director of the DRC. She is Deputy Editor of   and Secretary of the .

Dr Jessica Gossling

Jessica Gossling is Lecturer at Goldsmiths and Assistant Editor of . She is also Deputy Editor of   and Treasurer of the . 

Members

Emeritus Professor Chris Baldick 

Chris Baldick is co-editor with Jane Desmarais of  (2012) and of  (2017).  Decadence is one of a number of strands of Chris Baldick’s research in the field of 19th-century literature.  

Dr Isobel Hurst 

Isobel Hurst’s research examines the reception of Greek and Latin literature in English, looking at the connection between classical education and authorship and women writers’ creative engagement with the classical tradition.  

Dr Ben Levitas 

Ben Levitas practices an interdisciplinary approach to theatre, in particular integrating theatre history with cultural and political history – with a specialism in Irish studies.  

Eleanor Keane 

Eleanor Keane’s thesis examines ´Ú¾±²Ô-»å±ð-²õ¾±Ã¨³¦±ô±ð&²Ô²ú²õ±è;fairy tales as examples of queer decadent narratives, and her research interests focus on the decadent fairy tale, literary decadence and the visual arts, and expressions of gender, decadence, and sexuality within the late nineteenth century. 

Dr Sam Kunkel 

Sam Kunkel double-majored in French and Russian languages and literature at Oberlin College and holds a masters degree from the Sorbonne as well as a doctorate from the University of Paris-Saclay in the field of comparative literature. Sam is the editor of , the journal of Arthur Machen studies, and Reviews Editor for  . &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

Dr Cherrie Kwok

Cherrie Kwok is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of English and a Researcher Affiliate in the Center for Social Science Inquiry at the University of Iowa, where she produces research and teaches courses about global Anglophone literature from the nineteenth century to today. Her first book project is tentatively titled After Haiti: Anti-Colonialism and Global Decadent Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century. Her work has received awards from the British Association for Decadence Studies and the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, and is published or forthcoming in ³Õ´Ç±ô³Ü±è³Ùé: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, Victorian Studies, Victorian Poetry, Humanities, and Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik.

She is the Chair of the Aestheticism and Decadence Caucus at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). She also serves as a Co-Director for Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, where she is collaborating with other instructors to develop a lesson plan cluster on decadence, and Founder of the Global Decadence Lab at the Decadence Research Centre in 51ºÚÁÏÍø.

Dr Sandra Leonard 

 is an Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She is editor-in-chief of the COVE edition of  and Reviews Editor for   . &²Ô²ú²õ±è;

Dr James Machin 

Advisory Board

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