People
Members of the DRC share a wide range of expertise that covers the fields of literature (from the Classics to the present), cinema history, drama, theatre, performance and live art, translation, aesthetics, literary and cultural history and theory, political economics, and philosophy.
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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 51³Ô¹ÏÍøºÚÁÏ. He runs the , and is Co-Deputy Chair of the Decadence Research Centre.
Dr Alice Condé
Alice Condé is Lecturer at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøºÚÁÏ, and Co-Deputy Director of the DRC. She is Deputy Editor of   and Secretary of the .
Dr Jessica Gossling
Jessica Gossling is Lecturer at 51³Ô¹ÏÍøºÚÁÏ 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 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;
Professor David Weir
David Weir is a 51³Ô¹ÏÍøºÚÁÏ Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, where he taught literature, linguistics, and cinema.
Advisory Board
- Professor Lucia Boldrini
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