EDITORIAL TEAM

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jane Desmarais

Jane Desmarais is Professor of English and Director of the Decadence Research Centre in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has written numerous essays on the theme of decadence and has co-edited several works, including Decadence: An Annotated Anthology (with Chris Baldick, Manchester University Press, 2012), Arthur Symons: Selected Early Poems (with Chris Baldick, MHRA, 2017), and Decadence and the Senses (with Alice Condé, Legenda, 2017). She is co-editor with David Weir of Decadence and Literature (2019), a volume in the Cambridge Critical Concepts series, and is currently co-editing with David Weir the Oxford Handbook of Decadence (forthcoming in 2021) and Decadent Plays, 1890-1930 with Adam Alston (forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2023). Her monograph, Monsters Under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers, 1850 to the Present, was published by Reaktion in 2018. She is currently working on the vogue for decadent song literature of the early twentieth century.

DEPUTY EDITOR
Alice Condé

Alice Condé is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-editor of Decadence and the Senses (with Jane Desmarais, Legenda, 2017) and In Cynara’s Shadow: Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson (with Jessica Gossling, Peter Lang, 2019). Her essay on ‘Decadence and Popular Culture’ is published in Jane Desmarais and David Weir’s volume on Decadence for the Cambridge Critical Concepts series (2019), and she is currently working on decadence and its contemporary contexts.

DEPUTY EDITOR
Jessica Gossling

Jessica Gossling is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Deputy Managing Editor of The Literary Encyclopedia. She is co-editor of In Cynara’s Shadow: Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) and a chapter on decadence and interior design in the Oxford Handbook of Decadence (2021). Her essay on ‘À rebours and the House at Fontenay’ is published in Decadence and the Senses. Alongside researching decadence and occulture, Jessica is working on her first monograph on decadent threshold poetics. Alice and Jessica are the webmistresses of volupté.gold.ac.uk.

REVIEWS EDITOR
Sam Kunkel

Sam Kunkel is originally from the United States but has lived in Paris since 2010. He 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. His work is centered around the intersection of religion and nineteenth century European decadence and symbolism. His book, L’Orphisme et le Roman post-romantique was published by Éditions Otrante in 2023. He also works as a translator and has published English translations of The Solar Circus by Gustave Kahn, as well as selected mystical prose pieces by Édouard Schuré. A forthcoming publication, entitled Know Me To Be Your Superior in Everything: Erik Satie and the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor, will be released in 2025. Sam is the editor of Faunus, the journal of Arthur Machen studies. 

REVIEWS EDITOR
Sandra M. Leonard

Sandra M. Leonard is Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She is editor-in-chief of the COVE edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Portrait of Mr. W. H. and is the author of a number of articles and book chapters on Wilde including ‘Vera’s Sister Play Czeka’ in The Wildean. Her chapter ‘“Too greedily and too deep”: Decadence and the Relics of Empires in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings’ will appear in the forthcoming anthology Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-Earth. Sandra is working on a monograph on Oscar Wilde and aesthetic plagiarism.

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