Adam Alston is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Staging Decadence: Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism (2023) and Beyond Immersive Theatre: Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation (2016), and co-editor of Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre (with Martin Welton, 2017) and a special issue of Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies on 'Decadence and Performance' (with Alexandra Bickley Trott, 2021).

Jane Desmarais is Professor of English and Director of the Decadence Research Centre in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers, 1850 to the Present (2018) and Editor-in-Chief of Volupté: International Journal of Decadence Studies. She has written numerous essays and has co-edited several works on the theme of decadence, including Decadence: An Annotated Anthology (with Chris Baldick, 2012), Arthur Symons: Selected Early Poems (with Chris Baldick, 2017), Decadence and the Senses (with Alice Condé, 2017), Decadence and Literature (with David Weir, 2019) and The Oxford Handbook of Decadence (with David Weir, 2021).