Dr Kostas

Biography	The bulk of my research explores late nineteenth-century decadence, aestheticism, symbolism, and their legacies. I have published and presented widely on topics in the long Fin de siècle, with an emphasis on transnationalism, influence, and comparative poetics. My book, The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), partly funded by the Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant (FPUL), is the first monograph study with an exclusive focus on the poetry of the Decadent movement of the 1890s. It examines the curious productive paradoxical collisions between the immediacy of sensuous experience and artificiality of form, an overarching concept that guides my subsequent research in a variety of areas and emphases. I have published co-edited essay collections on themes in the fields of decadence and modernism. I have also co-edited The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), a book that showcases the instrumental role of little magazines in the shaping of the short story form. Published journal articles and chapters in volumes are devoted to such writers as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and Arthur Machen. I am in the process of completing a co-edited collection of essays on Neo-Victorian Decadence for Brill's Neo-Victorian Series. In connection with this project, I was on the co-organising committee of a study group and a conference on neo-Victorian decadence that was held in October 2022 in Pescara, hosted by the Centre of Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE) at the D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and the Decadence Research Centre (Goldsmiths, University of London). I am currently working on a book-length study on decadence and science fiction from the late nineteenth to late twentieth century. I am an Honorary Fellow and teaching associate in the Department of English Studies and an Associate Lecturer in English literature at Newcastle University. I have taught a wide range of modules across all levels of undergraduate study. I have previously taught Translation (MA) at Durham, in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures, supervising successfully 15,000-word projects.
Research Interests	Decadence and its legacies Comparative literature / Translation: symbolism and decadence 1890s little magazines Fin-de-siècle literature and culture Science fiction: esp. SF New Wave literature of transgression self-reflexive texts / metapoetics

Biography

The bulk of my research explores late nineteenth-century decadence, aestheticism, symbolism, and their legacies. I have published and presented widely on topics in the long Fin de siècle, with an emphasis on transnationalism, influence, and comparative poetics. My book, The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), partly funded by the Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant (FPUL), is the first monograph study with an exclusive focus on the poetry of the Decadent movement of the 1890s. It examines the curious productive paradoxical collisions between the immediacy of sensuous experience and artificiality of form, an overarching concept that guides my subsequent research in a variety of areas and emphases.

I have published co-edited essay collections on themes in the fields of decadence and modernism. I have also co-edited The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), a book that showcases the instrumental role of little magazines in the shaping of the short story form. Published journal articles and chapters in volumes are devoted to such writers as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and Arthur Machen. I am in the process of completing a co-edited collection of essays on Neo-Victorian Decadence for Brill's Neo-Victorian Series. In connection with this project, I was on the co-organising committee of a study group and a conference on neo-Victorian decadence that was held in October 2022 in Pescara, hosted by the Centre of Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE) at the D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and the Decadence Research Centre (Goldsmiths, University of London). I am currently working on a book-length study on decadence and science fiction from the late nineteenth to late twentieth century.

I am an Honorary Fellow and teaching associate in the Department of English Studies and an Associate Lecturer in English literature at Newcastle University. I have taught a wide range of modules across all levels of undergraduate study. I have previously taught Translation (MA) at Durham, in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures, supervising successfully 15,000-word projects.

Research Interests

Decadence and its legacies
Comparative literature / Translation: symbolism and decadence
1890s little magazines
Fin-de-siècle literature and culture
Science fiction: esp. SF New Wave
literature of transgression
self-reflexive texts / metapoetics