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
Robert Pruett-Vergara
Robert Pruett-Vergara is currently preparing a monograph of his thesis, Remy de Gourmont and the Crisis of Erotic Idealism, and his work investigates the interplay of erotic and philosophical discourses at the transition from Symbolism to modernism. Alongside the Cercle des Amateurs de Remy de Gourmont (CARGO), he co-organized the Fin de Siècle Symposium (Balliol College, Oxford, 2016). In 2018, he co-organized Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His chapter on ‘Dowson, France, and the Catholic Image’ appears in In Cynara’s Shadow: Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson (ed. by Alice Condé and Jessica Gossling).
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths, University of London
Elisa Bizzotto, IUAV University of Venice
Kostas Boyiopoulos, University of Durham
Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles
Barrie Bullen, Kellogg College, Oxford
Bénédicte Coste, University of Burgundy
Dennis Denisoff, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Rita Dirks, Ambrose University, Calgary
Petra Dierkes-Thrun, Stanford University
Stefano Evangelista, Trinity College, Oxford
Nick Freeman, Loughborough University
Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter
Ellis Hanson, Cornell University
Melanie Hawthorne, A&M University, Texas
Kate Hext, University of Exeter
Isobel Hurst, Goldsmiths, University of London
Frank Krause, Goldsmiths, University of London
Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University
Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London
Michèle Mendelssohn, Mansfield College, Oxford
Alex Murray, Queen’s University, Belfast
Lene Østermark-Johansen, University of Copenhagen
Sarah Parker, University of Loughborough
Patricia Pulham, University of Surrey
Charlotte Ribeyrol, Paris-Sorbonne University / Institut Universitaire de France and Trinity College, Oxford
Lucy Ella Rose, University of Surrey
Marion Thain, King’s College London
Jack Underwood, Goldsmiths, University of London
Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck, University of London
Norman Vance, University of Sussex
David Weir, Cooper Union, New York
Frances Wilson, Goldsmiths, University of London
