Marysa Demoor

English Studies
Department of Literature
Ghent University
Blandijnberg 2

9000 Ghent
Belgium

Marysa Demoor is Professor of English Literature at the University of Ghent and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has been the director of the Ghent Centre for Gender Studies since 1995 and Rectoral Advisor on Diversity and Gender since 2008. She has published widely on Victorian and modernist culture (her most recent articles appeared in English Literature in Transition, Biography, Cambridge Quarterly, Victorian Review and Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies). Recent book publications are Their Fair Share. Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield,1870-1920 (Ashgate 2000), Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930 (Palgrave, 2004); and, with Laurel Brake, Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (Academia, British Library, ProQuest, 2009) and Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press (Palgrave 2009).

Her main research interests are Victorian print culture, modernist little magazines, 19C Visual culture, nationhood and identity, and gender studies.