Advisory Board
Melanie C. Hawthorne
Melanie Hawthorne is a professor of French at Texas A&M University in the United States. She is best known for her work on Rachilde, in particular the critical biography Rachilde and French Women’s Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism (Nebraska, 2001) and the MLA edition of Monsieur Vénus. Hawthorne specializes in the Decadent period and women writers. In 2013 she published The Woman Who Didn’t Exist: The Curious Life of Gisèle d’Estoc, a biographical project that attempts to demystify and defend humanities research, in addition to recovering a lost figure of the Decadent period. Hawthorne’s current writing projects focus on the fin-de-siècle writer Renée Vivien (Pauline Tarn, 1877–1909).
Eleanor Keane
Eleanor Keane is a PhD researcher in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her thesis examines fin-de-siècle fairy tales as examples of queer decadent narratives, and her research interests focus on the decadent fairy tale; literary decadence and the visual arts; and expressions of gender, decadence, and sexuality within the late nineteenth century. Eleanor is a member of Goldsmiths’s Decadence Research Centre and the British Association of Decadence Studies (BADS) Executive Committee. She holds an MA in Literary Studies from Goldsmiths and an MSc from City University. Her article “Baudelaire’s Celestial Vision of Jeanne Duval” was included in Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 4.1 (2021). Eleanor co-organized Decadence and the Fairy Tale, a symposium hosted by the Decadence Research Centre at Goldsmiths in March 2023.
Jimmy Chan
Jimmy Chan is a lifelong graphic designer and creative mind who helps clients with brilliant ideas, but struggle at visually communicating those ideas. Jimmy is a graduate of the California College of the Arts where he studied design and screen printing. He has recently returned to CCA for photography, sewing, and to bat around the idea of obtaining an MFA.
Jimmy specializes in branding, illustration, publishing, and motion graphics; he transforms ideas into work that is memorable, meaningful, beautiful, and amusing.
Notable awards:
American Graphic Design Award by Graphic Design USA
AVA Digital Awards: Gold
Davey Award: Best Pharma Site, Best Design, Best Content
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