!!Jane Desmarais - Curriculum Vitae
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__Research interests:__\\
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Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature, visual culture, and music; Decadence and Aestheticism; psychoanalysis.\\
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__Academic Employment (last 5 years to date):__
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*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\\
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__Education:__
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*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
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__Leadership (last 5 years to date):__
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*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,\\ \\