Jane Desmarais - Curriculum Vitae#
Research interests:
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature, visual culture, and music; Decadence and Aestheticism; psychoanalysis.
Academic Employment (last 5 years to date):
- 2018 to date Professor in English, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2017 to date Director of the Decadence Research Unit
- 2013 - 2018 Senior Lecturer in English, Dept of English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London
Education:
- 1991 - 1996 PhD (part-time), Birkbeck College, University of London
- 1996 - DALF (Diplôme Approfondi de la Langue Française), Institut Français, London
- 1993 - RSA/ITTI certificated in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), International House, London
- 1985 - 1986 MA Literature and the Visual Arts, 1840-1940, University of Reading (British Academy funded)
- 1982 - 1985 BA English, University of Reading
Leadership (last 5 years to date):
- Chair of Research Excellence Framework, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Deputy Head of Dept of English and Comparative Literature, 2014 - present
- Director of Associate Teaching Staff, 2011 - 2019
- Programme Co-ordinator, BA English and Comparative Literature
- Editor-in-Chief of Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies https://volupte.gold.ac.uk/
- Founding Chair of BADS - British Association of Decadence Studies
- Core member of the Decadence and Translation Network and the Aestheticism and Decadence Network
- Organiser of the yearly series of international Decadence conferences at Goldsmiths, including Aesthetic Time, Decadent Archives (July 2019); Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult (July 2018); Arthur Symons at the fin de siècle (July 2017); and Decadence and the Senses (July 2014)
- Courtauld Art Writing Research Group
- Member and past convenor of the London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies,
