Cherrie Kwok is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, where she focuses on global Anglophone literature from the nineteenth century to today. Her first book project is tentatively titled After Haiti: Anti-Colonialism and Global Decadent Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century. Her work has received awards from the British Association for Decadence Studies and the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, and is published in Volupté: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, Victorian Studies, Humanities, and Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. She is the Chair of the Aestheticism and Decadence Caucus at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA). She also serves as a Co-Director for Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, where she is collaborating with other instructors to develop a lesson plan cluster on decadence, and Founder of the Global Decadence Lab at the Decadence Research Centre in Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Kristin Mahoney is a Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. She is the author of Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence (Cambridge UP, 2015) as well as Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family (Cambridge UP, 2022). With Dustin Friedman, she co-edited Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s (Cambridge UP, 2023). She also co-founded and co-edits the journal Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures.

Thomas Albrecht is Professor and Chair of English at Tulane University. He is the author of The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics (2009) and The Ethical Vision of George Eliot (2020). He has published journal and book chapter essays on aesthetics and aestheticism in Walter Pater; A. C. Swinburne; Henry James; Vernon Lee; and George Eliot. He is writing a monograph on aestheticism as a paradigm for the humanities in the age of A.I., focusing on Pater and on writers and critics who follow in his wake, such as Henry James, Vernon Lee, Michael Field, Mathilde Blind, and Alain Locke.

I am Professor of English at the University of Utah and the author of two books on fin de siècle literature: The Decadent Republic of Letter: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley (2013); and Shadows of Events: British Aestheticism and Nineteenth-Century Politics (forthcoming in 2027). I also edited Classical Studies, volume 8 of The Collected Works of Walter Pater (2021); and co-edited Perennial Decay: On the Aesthetics and Politics of Decadence (1999).

Regenia Gagnier is Professor Emerita of English Language and Literature at the University of Exeter. Among her monographs, those focussing on or including key chapters on Decadence and Aestheticism include Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (1986); The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society (2000); Individualism, Decadence and Globalization: on the Relationship of Part to Whole 1859-1920 (2010); Literatures of Liberalization: Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century (2018). She is on the Editorial Boards of 23 scholarly journals and has supervised to completion 95 doctorates at Stanford and Exeter. She recently held Visiting Professorships or fellowships at Tsinghua, Fudan, Melbourne, UMass Amherst, Vanderbilt, Arizona State, Leeds, Delhi, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (Shimla), Shiv Nadar, Humanities Research Centre at ANU, and STIAS in South Africa. Gagnier has served as Chair of the Consortium of Institutes of Advanced Study, Great Britain and Ireland; Presiding Officer of six MLA Division Executives; President of British Association for Victorian Studies; Honorary Centenary Fellow of English Association; Fellow of Royal Society of Arts; Member of Academia Europaea; Executive Committee of International Association of University Professors of English; Fellow of British Academy and Chair of BA section Modern Languages, Literatures, and other Media from 1830.

Alex Bubb is Associate Professor of English at Roehampton University in London. He is the author of Meeting Without Knowing It: Kipling and Yeats at the Fin de Siècle (2016), which won the University English Book Prize, and Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf: Flights of Translation (2023), which was awarded the Rosemary Mitchell Prize by BAVS. He specializes in nineteenth-century translation culture and popular multilingualism, with a particular focus on the fin-de-siècle. His article ‘Which Translation?: Identifying the True Source of Patten Wilson’s Shahnameh Illustrations’ won the Richard Stein Essay Prize in 2024, and he is currently finishing an article about japonisme and violence on the American frontier.

Alex Murray is Professor of Modern Literature at Queen’s University Belfast and founding co-editor of Cusp: Late Nineteenth-/Early Twentieth- Century Cultures, published by JHUP. He is the author of four monographs, including Decadent Conservatism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Past (Oxford University Press, 2023) and  Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He has edited ten collections, including most recently with Kate Hext, The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press, 2025). He is currently editing Arthur Machen’s The Hill of Dreams for Oxford World’s Classics. 

Besides teaching graduate seminars on aestheticism and decadence and an undergraduate course on "Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and New Women Writers," I have principally engaged aestheticism and decadence through women writers’ refractions of these literary modes on their own terms, whether through fluid, dissident, or protesting gender expression. I also study literary networks. Figures on which I currently or have recently written include Amy Levy, Vernon Lee, and Michael Field; earlier work examines Graham R. Tomson/Rosamund Marriott Watson and New Woman poets.

Ashley Miller is Associate Professor of English at Albion College. She is the author of Poetry, Media, and the Material Body, which came out from Cambridge in 2018, and she recently co-edited a special transhistorical issue of SEL: Studies in English Literature 1600-1900 with Doreen Thierauf and Livia Arndal Woods on the topic of reproduction.

I work in the intersection of Victorian literature and nineteenth-century intellectual history, with a particular focus on ethics. My research involves issues of genre and disciplinarity in relation to nineteenth-century non-fiction prose, philosophy and the novel, aesthetics and the mind, and literature and science. I'm currently working on a book manuscript that explores ethos and the ethics of uncertainty in several late Victorian authors (Water Pater, Oscar Wilde, William Morris, and Thomas Hardy).

Rachel Teukolsky is Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She researches aesthetic philosophy, global media history, and the political histories of culture. Her first book, The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics (Oxford UP, 2009), includes chapters on Ruskin, Pater, and Wilde. Her second book, Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media (Oxford UP, 2020), includes a chapter on decadence and the rise of the advertising art poster. Some of her recent articles (posted on this site) are on Beardsley and decadent politics; and on Pater and race (“White Desire”). She is also the author of a writing textbook that invokes Pater as a model: Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College (Broadview 2024).

She is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware. Author of over 150 essays (many of them about "New Women" and about Oscar Wilde's circles) in edited volumes and scholarly journals, as well as books and exhibition catalogues such as Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young (Grolier Club/U of Chicago Press, 2022), she has also been curator or co-curator of over a dozen exhibitions on late-Victorian print culture and art, most recently of Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity (New York Public Library, 2023-24). In addition, she is a widely published poet, as all good Decadents should be, following in the footsteps of Enoch Soames.