Dr Marion Thain

Marion Thain teaches literature and the liberal arts at New York University, and is Associate Director for Digital Humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Previously she was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and Reader at the University of Sheffield.

Her research is primarily in the areas of: aestheticism and Decadence; British poetry and poetics; the Digital Humanities. Recent publications include: The Lyric Poem: Formations and Transformations (Cambridge University Press, 2013); ‘Michael Field’ (1880-1914): Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge University Press, 2007); ‘Decadent Forms: Parnassus in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (Decadent Poetics: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); ‘Thomas Hardy’s Poetics of Touch’ (Victorian Poetry, 2013); ‘Desire Lines: Swinburne and Lyric Crisis’ (Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate: Manchester University Press, 2012).

Marion is director of The Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium, and a collaborator on The Affect Project.