Wilde's Other Worlds

Michael F. Davis is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. He works in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century literature and theory with particular research interests in narratology, art and aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and sexuality. He has published essays on Walter Pater, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, as well as an essay on Robert Mapplethorpe and late-twentieth-century American political discourse. He is currently completing a book on Walter Pater, Walter Pater's Latent Intelligence and the Conception of Queer Theory, and a book on Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf's Working Out: the Art of the Novel and the Law of the Father. ???Petra Dierkes-Thrun (Ph.D. in English and Cultural and Critical Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2003) is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Assistant Vice Provost at Stanford University, where she teaches 19th- and early 20th-century British and Western European literature and culture, as well as feminist, gender and sexuality studies. Publications include Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression (University of Michigan Press, 2011) as well as articles on Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Symons, Stéphane Mallarmé, Richard Strauss, Victoria Cross, Rachilde, Fin-de-siècle realism, and New Woman literature. She an editorial board member of Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence and was one of the founding editors of The Latchkey: Journal of New Woman Studies. Dierkes-Thrun is currently researching a new book project on Wilde and Rachilde in Paris.