March 31, 2023
Plenary Speaker
Shola von Reinhold, author of LOTE (2020) and winner of the 2021 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 2021 The Republic of Consciousness Prize
April 1, 2023
Plenary Speaker
Robert Stilling, Associate Professor of English at Florida State University and recipient of the 2019 Modernist Studies Association Prize for a First Book, Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (2018).
Futures of Decadence Studies Roundtable
Adam Alston, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, and director of Staging Decadence
Peter Bailey, Assistant Professor of English, University of the Bahamas
Jane Desmarais, Professor of English, Goldsmiths, University of London, Director of The Decadence Research Centre, Editor-in-Chief of Volupté: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies.
Stefano-Maria Evangelista, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Oxford University, and author of Citizens of Nowhere: Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siècle (2021).
Kristin Mahoney, Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University, and Co-Editor of CUSP: Late 19th and 20th Century Cultures.
Michèle Mendelssohn, Professor of English and American Literature, Oxford University, and award-winning author of Making Oscar Wilde (2018).
To Be Determined
Conference Chair
Cherrie Kwok, PhD Candidate and Elizabeth Arendall Tilney and Schuyler Merritt Tilney Jefferson Fellow, University of Virginia. Email: mk7k@virginia.edu
Vice Chairs
Joe McLaughlin, PhD Student, University of Toronto. Email: joe.mclaughlin@mail.utoronto.ca
Amy Sailer, PhD Candidate, University of Utah
Sponsor
The Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia, with support from The Decadence Research Centre, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Kristin Mahoney and Michèle Mendelssohn for their help in brainstorming the format of the conference, and to Linda Winecoff for suggesting an event in the first place. Many thanks as well to Stephen Arata, Jane Desmarais, Ellis Hanson, and Ben Skipper, for their feedback and support.
Artwork
All the images on the conference poster and website are under a creative commons licence. This website uses various photographs of four artworks by Yinka Shonibare, a British-Nigerian artist: “Wind Sculpture VII” (pictured below and in the conference poster), “Prospero’s Monsters (CFP page)” “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle,” (CFP page) and “Earth” (at the top of this page).
For more on Shonibare’s relationship to Decadence, see Robert Stilling’s chapter, “Decadence and Anti-Realism in the Art of Yinka Shonibare” in Beginning at the end: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (2018).
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