Regenia Gagnier - Biography#

Professor Regenia Gagnier’s specialisms include Victorian and modern Britain, especially the Fin de Siècle; the geopolitics of language and literature migration; digital humanities; literary and social theory; sex, gender and sexuality; interdisciplinary studies, esp. science and technology; and women in the professions. Gagnier holds the Established Chair in English Language and Literature at the University of Exeter, founding and co-editorship of the Global Circulation Project, and Senior Research Fellowship in Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences. Her monographs include Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford, 1986); Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 (Oxford, 1991); The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society (Chicago, 2000); Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: on the Relationship of Part to Whole 1859-1920 (Palgrave Macmillan 2010); Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century (Palgrave, 2018). Gagnier has edited special issues of The Global Circulation Project on Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-first Century (2010), Global Modernisms (2012), Twenty‐First Century “Chinoiserie” (2015), and Rabindranath Tagore’s Global Vision (2015). She is on the Editorial Boards of 21 scholarly journals and has supervised to completion 79 doctorates at Stanford and Exeter. She recently held Visiting Professorships at Tsinghua, Fudan, Melbourne, UMass Amherst, Vanderbilt, Arizona State, Leeds, Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. In 2021, she will take up fellowships at STIAS in South Africa and the Humanities Research Centre at ANU in Australia.

Gagnier has served as Chair of the Consortium of Institutes of Advanced Study, Great Britain and Ireland; Presiding Officer of six MLA Division Executives in the USA and the AHRC Research Panel and University English Executive, UK. She is Honorary Centenary Fellow of the English Association; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academia Europaea, and on the International Executive Committee of IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English). She was President of the British Association for Victorian Studies 2009-2012. She currently sits on the £1.5 Billion Selection and Interview Panels of UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund. In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy.