Marysa Demoor

Background

Marysa Demoor was born on January 15, 1965, in Belgium. She is a daughter of Hubert Demoor, a history teacher and headmaster, and Simone Demoor, a physical education teacher.

Education

In 1983 Marysa Demoor received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Ghent.

Career

From 1977 to 1989 Marysa Demoor was an assistant lecturer at the University of Ghent. From 1989 to 2000 she was a senior researcher at Flanders Science Foundation in Brussels, Belgium, after which she became a tenured research professor at Ghent University. She obtained a full professorship in 2004. She was a member of the University of Ghent research council from 1998 to 2013. She was the chair of the Humanities committee for the last seven years of that membership. Demoor is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge (United Kingdom) since 2001.

In 2011 she held the Van Dijck chair at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States. Until 2013, she was an advisor to the Rector on Diversity and Gender and she was the founder of the policy unit for gender and diversity. In 2014 she founded the peer-reviewed journal DiGeSt, a scholarly journal that publishes on diversity and gender studies. Since 2014 she is the Director of the Doctoral School, Arts, Humanities and Law. In 2016 she chaired the Literature and Arts committee of the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO).

Demoor has published widely on Victorian and modernist culture. Book publications include Their Fair Share. Women, Power, and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield (2000), Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves, and Self-fashioning (2004), etc.

Achievements

• Marysa Demoor is best known as the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power, and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920. Her works received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press

    (This volume tackles the subject of illustration, technica...)

    2009
  • Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930

    (Marketing the Author looks at the careers and the writing...)

    2004
  • Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920

    (Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises many previ...)

    2000
  • "Bravest of Women and Finest of Friends": Henry James's Letters to Lucy Clifford

    (The place occupied by Lucy Lane Clifford (1846-1829) in H...)

    1999
  • Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism: In Great Britain and Ireland

    (DNCJ is a large-scale reference work covering the journal...)

    2009
  • Dear Stevenson: The Letters of Andrew Lang to Robert Louis Stevenson 1990

Membership

Marysa Demoor is a member of the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals, Société Française d'Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes.

Interests

• reading, theater, cinema

Connections

Marysa Demoor married Patrick Vanleene. They have three children: Dennis, Vanessa, Daphne and five grandchildren.

Father:

Hubert Demoor

Mother:

Simone Demoor

Spouse:

Patrick Vanleene

Son:

Dennis Vanleene

Daughter:

Vanessa Vanleene

Daughter:

Daphne Vanleene

References

• Contemporary Authors
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