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This page is devoted to the team that produces www.oscholars.com. Rather than
have an Editorial Advisory Board, we have assembled a group of specialists,
known informally as The Rose Garden, where each member has responsibility for
an area, geographical or thematic, from or on which to report and comment. As Associate Editors of the whole group,
all work to improve and extend coverage of our chosen subject, the world of
the fin de siècle in its different aspects, the lives and works of the makers
of the fin de siècle, and current scholarship on the period and its public
representation in exhibitions and on stage as well as in print. |
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Emily Alder
took over from Michèle Mendelssohn
as our Editor for Scotland in July 2008. She graduated in 1999 with a BA
(Hons) in English Literature from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and
was awarded a doctorate for her thesis on ‘William Hope Hodgson and the
borderlands of the fin-de-siècle’ March 2009 at Napier University, Edinburgh. @ |
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Anne Anderson, formerly
at the University of Southampton, now has
a research fellowship at the Huntington and at the University of Exeter,
while also teaching at the University of Bristol, and curating at Southampton
City Art Gallery. She joined our VISIONS group as
Arts & Crafts Editor in November 2008. @ |
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Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch was Curator of Irish Art 1998-2009 at the National Gallery of Ireland until her retirement. Before that she taught history of art at University College Dublin and was a tutor for the Open University. Her research interests include all aspects of Irish painting and sculpture in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her latest publication is entitled Irish Art Irish History Representing Ireland from 1845 to Present (Creighton University Press, 2007). She was our first Reviews Editor of VISIONS, and is now VISIONS Hon. Advisor. |
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Sharon Bickle is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University in Australia. Her doctoral thesis, an edition of the letters of Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper (Michael Field) was recently published as The Fowl and the Pussycat: Love Letters of Michael Field, 1876–1909 (U. of Virginia Press, 2008). Nineteenth century studies are the focus for her teaching and research interests which include: intersubjectivity and collaborative writing; women's letters and lifewriting; women's poetry; textual editing; and archival studies. Her current project is an edition of the Michael Field-John Gray correspondence. Dr Bickle is one half of the editorial team of The Michaelian, which seeks to encourage scholarship on this unique partnership and their place in the late-Victorian world. @ |
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Isa Bickmann is an Editor of VISIONS, responsible
for our coverage of fin-de-siècle exhibitions and publications in Germany.
Art Historian, Author, Curator, she studied Art History, Media Studies and
European Ethnology (Cultural Studies) in |
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Elisa Bizzotto is junior research fellow in English
Literature at IUAV University, Venice. She has worked on Walter Pater, Oscar
Wilde, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley and other fin-de-siècle authors by
privileging genre, gender, myth, interart and comparatist approaches. She is
the author of La mano e l’anima
(Milan, 2001) and has co-edited the Pre-Raphaelite magazine The Germ. Thoughts towards nature in Poetry, Literature and Art (Trento,
2008) with Paola Spinozzi. She edits together with Luca Caddia RAVENNA our journal of
fin-de-siècle studies in Italy under the title , launched in March 2009.
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Luca Caddia was
born in Rome in 1977. In 2002 he took a degree in Philosophy and in 2008 a
Doctorate in English Literature (both at the University of Rome ‘La
Sapienza’). Strongly concerned with men's studies, his doctoral dissertation
dealt with the relationship between character and career in Anthony
Trollope's Palliser Novels. In 2006 he presented a paper about Ferdinand
Lopez's suicide in Trollope's The Prime Minister during a conference
on ‘Irresponsibility’ organized by the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore,
and in August 2008 he read a paper about the BBC adaptations of Trollope's
novels during a conference on Neo-Victorianism organized by the University of
Wales Lampeter. He also wrote a paper about the role of collectible objects
in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's neo-Pompeian paintings, for the NAVSA 2008
Conference at Yale University. He works as a literary translator
Eng>It. He has translated works by Israel Zangwill, Tess Gallagher,
Bernard Cooper and also The Dedalus Book of Absinthe, by Phil Baker. With
Elisa Bizzotto he is co-editing
the pages we are publishing on fin-de-siècle Italy under the title RAVENNA. @ |
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Carmen Casaliggi lectures in English
Literature at the University of Wales in Cardiff, having previously taught at
the University of Kent, Christ Church University in Canterbury, and the
University of Limerick. She teaches Renaissance, Romantic and nineteenth
century literature. Her central research interests are Word and Image
studies; Ruskin and nineteenth-century European literature and culture and
Romanticism in literature and art. She has published several articles on
Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner, and is the author of Ruskin and Turner. |
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Anuradha Chatterjee is our Editor charged with bringing
Ruskin studies into our project with a bi-annual journal on Ruskin studies
to-day, called THE EIGHTH
LAMP. She grew up in |
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Koenraad Claes succeeded Eva Thienpont as our Belgian Editor in September 2008. He writes ‘I am a Research Assistant based at Ghent University, currently writing a PhD dissertation within the framework of the research project “Genesis and Function of the Supplements”, supervised by Prof. Marysa Demoor and Prof. Geert Lernout. I study various kinds of ephemera from the (in)famous Aestheticist/Decadent little magazines of the 1890s, as a starting point to investigate how their editorial policies related to aesthetic ideals prevalent in the late nineteenth century. In particular, I’m focussing on aspirations towards the Total Work of Art in the Nineties avant-garde, and how these are (sometimes ambiguously) fitted into the editorial and commercial strategies of these periodicals.’ @ |
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Jessica Cox (Brunel University) is Reviews Editor of THE LATCHKEY, our journal devoted to the New Woman. Jessica Cox’s research interests include Victorian sensation literature (particularly the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins), the Brontës, New Woman Fiction, the neo-Victorian novel, and film adaptation. She is particularly interested in gender approaches to literature, and the impact of first-wave feminism upon the Victorian novel. She would welcome research students working in any of these areas. She has organised a number of conferences, including an interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Adapting the Nineteenth Century: Revisiting, Revising, and Rewriting the Past’, held at the University of Wales Lampeter in August 2008 (click here for details), a one-day symposium on Mary Elizabeth Braddon and a postgraduate conference entitled ‘Haunted Bodies: Gender and (Dis)Embodiment’. She has published a number of articles in various journals, including Women's Writing, Philological Quarterly and the Journal of Gender Studies, and she is currently in the process of editing two proposed collections on Mary Braddon. @ |
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Tricia Cusack is Reviews Editor for VISIONS.
She is part of the Culture, Society and Communication programme team
in the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music at the University
of Birmingham. She also supervises postgraduate students in the Department of
History of Art. Her research focuses on the intersections of visual culture
and the construction of national identity in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Tricia co-edited Art,
Nation and Gender: Ethnic landscapes, myths and mother-figures
(Ashgate) with Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch and has published various book
chapters, and numerous articles in journals including Art History, Visual Culture in
Britain, National Identities, and Nations and Nationalism. Her book Riverscapes and National Identities
will be published by Syracuse University Press in December 2009. @ |
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Petra Dierkes-Thrun is a Lecturer in the Comparative
Literature Department at Stanford University and serves as the General Editor
of THE LATCHKEY.
She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Salome's
Modernity: Oscar Wilde, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Transgression.
Previously she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Victorian and
Modernist literature and cultural studies, gender studies, literary and
critical theory, and composition at California State University Northridge,
and at Santa Clara University, California. In addition to a Ph.D. from the
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2003), she holds Erstes
Staatsexamen degrees in English, German, and Theology from the Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany (1995, 1996). Petra has
published articles on Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss, George Bernard Shaw, and
Arthur Symons, and is a contributor to Approaches to Teaching the Works
of Oscar Wilde, ed. Philip E. Smith II (New York: Modern Language
Association of America, 2008). @ |
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Andrew Eastham is currently a visiting lecturer at Royal
Holloway, London and Brunel University, and has recently taught at King’s and
Goldsmiths Colleges in London. In 2004 he was awarded a doctorate from |
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Tine Englebert graduated as Master in Germanic Philology (University of Ghent, Belgium). She is librarian at The Public Library of Ghent, Belgium. She developed a special interest in the musical adaptations of the works of Oscar Wilde. Tine is preparing a Ph.D. at the University of Ghent, which examines the relationship between literature and libretto, especially focused on Oscar Wilde, and as Editor for Music contributes a regular report called ‘Mad, Scarlet Music’ which explores the musical adaptations and versions of Wilde’s work, and their performance. This has started to branch out to cover more of the music of the late 19th century. She is also the compiler of our DISCOGRAPHY. @ |
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Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford) is editor of the
forthcoming volume on The Reception of
Oscar Wilde in Europe and was organiser of the Oxford conference of the same name in
March 2008. He became our Oxford
Editor in October 2008, and we will be extending the pioneering co-operation
between The Reception of Oscar Wilde in
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Valerie Fehlbaum has joined our group primarily as
guest-editor-designate of The
Trellis, a journal intended for annual print publication by
members of the team. Educated at St Hilda's College, |
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Nicola Gauld completed a PhD in History of Art at the
University of Aberdeen in 2006. Her thesis was titled ‘The Nature of the
Beast: depictions of the exotic animal in C19 visual culture’. In 2005 she
published ‘Victorian Bodies: the wild animal as adornment’ in the British Art Journal. In October 2006
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Sophie Geoffroy is Professor at the |
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Irena Grubica is an assistant lecturer in the English
Department at the University of Rijeka, Croatia where she teaches English
Neo-Classicism and Romanticism. She graduated in Comparative literature and
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Not an academic, but with maîtrises in literature (on Proust) and law from the University of Paris X – Nanterre, Danielle Guérin works as a senior administrator in the Department of Music at Radio France. She is one of the four founder members of the Société Oscar Wilde en France and edits the Society’s journal Rue des beaux arts, which is also to be found at www.oscholars.com. For THE OSCHOLARS itself she is Editor for France (Cultural Affairs) / Rédactrice pour la France (Affaires culturelles). @ |
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Helena Gurfinkel received her PhD in English from Tufts University. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Victorian literature, critical and cultural theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of articles on Oscar Wilde, J.R. Ackerley, Anthony Trollope, and Alan Hollinghurst. She is currently completing a book manuscript on non-traditional fatherhood in Victorian and twentieth-century British literature. Her other interests include psychoanalytic theory, Diaspora studies, and masculinity studies. She took over the editorship of our theatre pages UPSTAGE in June 2009 with a view to developing our coverage of fin-de-siècle theatre. @ |
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Lisa Hager is a
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. An Editor in the team producing THE
LATCHKEY for which she is Bibliographer, her current book project is a
revised version of her dissertation, ‘A Necessary Influence: The Victorian
New Woman and the Middle-Class Family, 1868–1897’ (University of Florida).
This looks at the relationship between the New Woman and the Victorian family,
particularly how the family structurally depends on the New Woman in the
Victorian novel. She is a regular book reviewer for English Literature in Transition
1880-1920, and her publications include ‘Slumming with the New Woman: Fin-de-Siècle
Sexual Inversion, Reform Work, and Sisterhood in Rhoda Broughton's Dear
Faustina’, Women's
Writing 14.3 (Winter 2007): and ‘A
Community of Women: Women's Agency and Sexuality in George Egerton's Keynotes
and Discords’, Nineteenth-Century
Gender Studies
2.2 (Summer 2006). She is also Director of Communications and a board member
of the 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Association. @ |
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Steven Halliwell, our Webmaster, is a publisher (The Rivendale Press) and editor, and has written bibliographies of the Enitharmon Press and the Tragara Press. Long the mainstay of the Eighteen-Nineties Society, he is currently working with Philip Cohen on a biography of the anarchist poet John Barlas. @ |
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Christine Huguet
is a Senior Lecturer (maître de conférences) at the Université de Lille |
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Ilze
Kačāne,
our Editor for Latvia, is Researcher at the Faculty of the Humanities
Institute of Comparative Studies at Daugavpils University since 2005. PhD
degree (Dr. philol)
in Comparative Literature ( |
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Sondeep Kandola is our
(associate) editor for Melmoth, The Oscholars’ journal on the topics of the Gothic,
Decadence and Sensation literature. She is a Lecturer in English at |
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Nevin Yilderim Koyoncu teaches in the Department of English, Ege
University, Izmir, and is our Editor for Turkey. |
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Lucia Krämer, Editor for Germany /
Redakteurin fur Deutschland, is Lecturer in British Literature and Culture at
the University of Regensburg in Germany. She took her Ph.D. in 2002 for
a thesis on fictional biographies of Oscar
Wilde in Roman, Drama und Film (Lang, 2003), and she has
published articles on Wilde as an object of the British heritage industry and
on Wilde adaptations in heritage films. More recently, she has worked on
animation films and the representation of masculinity in the genre of the
rock film. The main focus of her current work, however, is popular Indian
cinema. @ |
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Aoife Leahy took over from Maureen O’Connor as Editor for
Ireland in March 2008, and provides a regular Letter from Oscar Wilde’s
island. She has published on Wilde, John Ruskin, Wilkie Collins and the
Victorian artist Noel Paton. She is currently working on a book examining
Dorothy L. Sayers’ use of Victorian authors in explaining Modernism to her
readers. She has taught English Literature in UCD, UL and IADT in recent
years. She is President of the National Association of English Studies, the |
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Elizabeth McCollum as Fashion Editor
reports for us on new work on late Victorian and Edwardian fashion, dandyism,
Rational Dress and similar topics; and on contemporary interpretation in
films and on stage. She is a graduate of Marlboro College, VT, with a degree
in Victorian History and Costume Design, part of which was a thesis in which
were examined all aspects of Victorian and Edwardian Bohemian life and dress,
focussing particularly on women in the Pre-Raphaelite, Aesthetic and
Bloomsbury movements. She also spent 6 months in |
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Claire Charlotte McKechnie is
currently completing her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in the field of
Victorian Gothic literature and nineteenth-century (medical) science,
examining the animal ‘other’ in the works of writers such as Arthur Conan
Doyle, William Hope Hodgson, and H. G. Wells. She completed a Masters in
Victorian Literature at the University of Glasgow in 2007 and in 2005, she
gained a first-class degree in English Literature from the University of
Hull. Claire edits our page devoted to late nineteenth century reading
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Kirsten MacLeod (University of Alberta), Editor for Canada, specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American literature. Her publications include a critical edition of Marie Corelli's Wormwood and articles on Corelli, M.P. Shiel and American Decadent little magazines. She was a Harry Ransom Research Fellow in 2004 and is working on a monograph on turn-of-the-century American little magazines. Her Fictions of British Decadence: High Art, Popular Writing and the Fin-de-Siècle was published by Palgrave in 2006. @ |
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John McRae has been at the forefront of work on the
language and literature interface since the publication of his Reading Between the Lines
in 1984. He has written or edited over fifty books, and published a similar
number of articles on a wide range of subjects including Shakespeare, Luther
in English literature, Elizabethan misogyny, narratology, utopia/dystopia, Smollett,
Dickens, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, the history of vocabulary, 1890s and
modern gay writing, D. H. Lawrence, Samuel Beckett, modern drama, new
Englishes and new literatures in English, cultural studies, cross-cultural
learning. John McRae prepared the first unexpurgated critical edition
of the suppressed novel Teleny
by Oscar Wilde and others (1986/2000), and was Guest Editor of our Special
Issue devoted to re-assessing Teleny,
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Sandra Mayer, Editor for Austria and German Switzerland,
studied English and History at the universities of Sussex, England, and Graz,
Austria, where she submitted her MA thesis on the impact of scandal on the
reception of Oscar Wilde’s works in early twentieth-century England. She is
currently a Ph.D. student in the Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik at
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Mathilde Mazau is a graduate of the University of Caen, where she wrote a thesis on Wilde for her D.E.A. Now teaching and translating in Glasgow, she is responsible for THE OSCHOLARS entries on Facebook and other networks. @ |
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Claire O’Callaghan is a PhD candidate at the University of
Leicester researching into the works of historical novelist Sarah Waters. She
is a leading member of the Postgraduate Contemporary Women's Writing Network
and is responsible for the PR and Marketing of THE
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Atsuko Ogane ( 大鐘
敦子 ),
our Editor for Japan, is a poet and professor at Kanto Gakuin University in
Tokyo. Her current research is chiefly on Flaubert’s Hérodias de Trois Contes
and the origins of the Herodias-Salomé myth in European literature. Her
doctoral thesis (2005, Keio University) was on the stylistic, symbolic,
icongraphic and genetic elements in Hérodias
by Gustave Flaubert. She is the author of several books, on Flaubert, Moreau,
Mallarmé and Wilde; a collection of poems; La genèse de la danse de Salomé—L’ « Appareil
scientifique » et la symbolique polyvalente dans Hérodias de Flaubert
(Keio University Press, 2006, in French) and The Genesis of Salome’s Dance–Flaubert, Moreau, Mallarmé, Wilde
(Keio University Press, 2008, in Japanese; with Chronology of adaptations of
the Hérodias-Salomé myth in French, q.v. @ |
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Gwen
Orel became our
American theatre Editor in November 2008.
A graduate of Stanford, she now works as a theatre critic in New York.
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Anna Orhanen,
the editor for Finland, is a research student whose chief interest is the
aesthetics in the work of Wilde and Proust. She is currently working on her
Doctoral thesis at the English Department of the University of Turku,
Finland, where her work is supervised by Adjunct Prof. Lydia Kokkola.
Orhanen's thesis examines the treatment of aesthetic experience in Wilde's
criticism, with a special emphasis on how the paradoxes in Wilde's texts
contribute to formation of aesthetic reception strategies and how paradoxes
may enhance the reader's aesthetic understanding. In the autumn 2009, Orhanen
moves to King's College London as an Osk. Huttunen Foundation grantee, to
embark on research on the role of the reader in Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Her work
at King's is supervised by Prof. Patrick ffrench and Dr Johanna Malt. @ |
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Lene Østermark-Johansen of the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen, is our Editor for Denmark. She is currently completing a book which examines the place of sculpture in Walter Pater’s writings and aims to place Pater in a series of new contexts, thus taking in a range of other disciplines such as art history, art theory, the history of collections, phenomenology, archaeology and philology. She is the author of Sweetness and Strength: The Reception of Michelangelo in Late Victorian England, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998). @ |
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Cristina Pascual
Aransáez, Editor for Spain, is Professor at Camilo José Cela University
(Madrid). She graduated with honours in English Philology at the University
of La Rioja in June 1997. She obtained a Research Fellowship (funded by the
Spanish Ministry of Education and Science), and as a result she started to
work as a Research Fellow at the Department of Modern Languages of the
University of La Rioja. In 1999 she wrote her M.A. dissertation, entitled
‘The Role of the Reader in Oscar Wilde’s The
Picture of Dorian Gray’, and she also obtained a BA degree in
German. She received her Ph.D. in English Philology Cum Laude at the
University of La Rioja in December 2002. Her doctoral dissertation, which was
entitled ‘The Role of the Reader in Oscar Wilde’s Narrative and Dramatic
Works’, constituted a critical approach to Oscar Wilde's creative writings
from the hypothesis that they called upon the active participation of the
reader in the construction of their meaning. It explored the literary
strategies which Wilde employs to impel the reader to participate actively in
the construction of the meaning of his narrative and dramatic works and cast
light upon the social criticism which is derived from them. @ |
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Michelle Paull, one of our two Editors for Theatre
Studies, is a lecturer at St Mary’s University College in London and her PhD
and current research is on Sean O’Casey. Michelle has also worked as a
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Tiffany Perala teaches in the English Literature &
Writing Faculty at Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon after a spell
teaching at Chaminade University in Honolulu. Her thesis on ‘George Moore as Precursor
of Fin de Siècle British Decadence’ gained her a Ph.D at the University of
Nottingham in February 2008. Formerly one of our Theatre Editors, she
has now taken over our journal of Moore studies, Moorings. In addition to |
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Charlotte Ribeyrol
is a Senior Lecturer (Maître de Conférences) at the Sorbonne University in
Paris. Nineteenth century English literature and painting are the focus of
both her teaching and her research. Her doctoral thesis focused on the
Hellenism of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, John Addington
Symonds, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, and Albert Moore. She has also
worked in partnership with the Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
department of the Louvre Museum. Her publications include articles on
Swinburne’s poetics and on fin de siècle visual culture. She joined
our VISIONS group
as Editor for France in August 2009. @ |
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B.J. Robinson
earned her Bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and her Master's
and Ph. D. degrees at the University of Virginia. In September 2008 she
joined us as Editor of our page ‘The Rack and the Press’. Her field of interests include Nineteenth
and Twentieth Century British literature and Creative Writing. She has
published several articles on late Victorian writers and guest edited a
special issue of Victorian Poetry
on British Women Writers at the Turn of the Century, and she is a published novelist and poet.
She is the Founder and Director of the University Press
of North Georgia. @ |
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David Charles Rose has overall responsibility for the
development of the project, and particular concern with THE OSCHOLARS
itself. He was educated at |
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Following a career in the performing arts as a dancer and actor in both
the UK and USA, Annabel Rutherford
completed MAs in Dance History and English as well as an inter-disciplinary
MA in Russian Modernism (Art, Music, and Drama). She is currently pursuing a
PhD in English and Drama at |
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S.I. Salamensky holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the editor of the book Talk Talk Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation (Routledge) and has just completed a book manuscript working-titled Wilde Words: Performance and the Proto-Modernist Cultural Imagination. She is currently engaged in a project concerning notions of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ from the fin de siècle through the current day; and editing a Special Issue of THE OSCHOLARS addressing Wilde, Jews and the fin de siècle, Autumn 2009. @ |
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Rita Severi is one of our three Editors
for Italy, with the responsibility of reporting on fin-de-siècle affairs from
that country. Professor Severi teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of
Verona, and has published both on Oscar Wilde and on Vernon Lee. @ |
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Tijana Stajic, who became
Editor for Sweden in July 2008, earned her B.A. in 2004 at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden, majoring in English and German literature. In
the autumn of 2007, again at the University of Gothenburg, she defended
her master's thesis entitled ‘Thomas Pynchon’s Decadent Romance: Life Against
Death in “The Crying of Lot 49”’. She argues that this Pynchon novel
exemplifies the last stage of the development of the Decadent novel from fin
de siècle ‘Decadence proper’ to ‘Decadence resolved’ under
postmodernism. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation
(to be finished in the spring of 2010) entitled ‘From Decadence Proper to
Decadence Resolved: A Study of Four Novels by Oscar Wilde, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon’. Her research interests
include fin de siècle, aestheticism and art in literature. @
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Julia Steck joined us in April
2009 as joint editor for German Switzerland; she previously taught a summer
course in English literature at the Institut auf dem Rosenberg. Her graduate work has mostly focused on
Victorian, Ethnic (mainly Middle East and North Africa), and
Contemporary Comparative literature at Portland State University, Oregon,
where she is planning to do a Ph.D. She
currently lives in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she teaches
literature at the American School of Santo Domingo and looks for traces of
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Gulshan Taneja, our Editor for India, is an
associate professor at RLA College, University of Delhi. He has edited books
on Rushdie and Yeats and a festschrift,
Literature East and West, which focuses on comparative literature studies.
His recent researches focus on British modernist period and he has published
critical articles on Eliot, Leavis, Joyce, and Lawrence. Dr Taneja is
also a photographer and specialises in dance photography. He also writes on
photography. He edits In-between:
Essays and Studies in Literary criticism, a bi-annual journal of
English Literary criticism and has published, since 1992, 32 is |
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Sarah Townley, a co-Editor for THE LATCHKEY, is a doctoral candidate in the School of English at the University of Nottingham. She is hoping to revisit Henry James as a figure who had to negotiate between pure artistry and instrumentality when offering his own account of the possibilities and supremacy of the novel as a form, and also wants to consider the extent to which Virginia Woolf extended into a new age of literary experiment that same mediation between social utility and aesthetic perfectionism which is emblematized by those late-Victorian figures in my project. Her aim is thus to consider how each writer negotiates creativity and intellectual integrity through their awareness of public modes of reception. Overall, her doctoral research will build upon with recent scholarship in the field by rethinking the periodicity and capaciousness of Aestheticism itself. @ |
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Florina Tufescu is Editor for Romania and general editor
for the scholarly, open access edition of Wilde's works, which we are
planning. She would be happy to hear from readers and potential
contributors to fin-de-siècle and/or gender studies in |
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Sarah Turner is Joint Editor for VISIONS, and is
responsible for gathering information on theses (in progress and recently
completed) on the visual arts of the period c.1880-c.1910. She has studied at
the Universities of Cambridge and |
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With an
M.A. from the University of Denver and a D. Phil from Oxford (Hertford
College), Anna Vaninskaya is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow with
the Cambridge University Victorian Studies Group Leverhulme
Trust Project ‘Past vs. Present in Victorian Britain: Abandoning the Past in
an Age of Progress’ (2006-2010) and a Junior Research Fellow at King’s
College, Cambridge. She has published
numerous articles on William Morris, and is in charge of listing publications
and commissioning reviews for us on Victorian and Edwardian Anarchism and
Socialism. She will also edit a
projected (2010) supplement on Wilde’s The
Soul of Man under Socialism. @ |
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Costanza Vettori is an Editor for Italy assisting Elisa
Bizzotto. She obtained her degree from the |
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Linda Pui-Ling Wong, Editor for China,
Taiwan and Singapore, is Associate Professor, Department of
English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her
research interests include Victorian Novel and Poetry, Irish Studies, Gender
Studies, Image of Woman in Literature, Comparative Literature, and
Chinese-Western Literary Relations. @ |
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Naomi Wood is an associate professor of
English at |
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We also thank Patricia Flanagan Behrendt, Angela Kingston, Mark Llewellyn, Michèle Mendelssohn, Maureen O’Connor, Barbara Pfeifer, Colleen Platt, Elaine Saniter, Julie A. Sparks, Catrin Siedenbiedel, and Eva Thienpont, who, until turned aside by pressure of other work, were valued members of the team. |
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