Lucinda Janson

Lucinda Janson holds an Honours degree in English Literature from the Australian National University and a Diploma of Languages (Latin). She received the University Medal, and the Leslie Holdsworth Allen Memorial Prize for the best performance in English Honours. In July 2023, she graduated with Distinction from an MSt in English (1830-1914) at the University of Oxford, where she was funded by a Clarendon Scholarship. She wrote her MSt dissertation on queer childhood and aesthetic education in Vernon Lee’s œuvre. She was recently awarded the Queer Intersections Oxford prize, and also the British Association of Decadence Studies essay prize for “‘Oh, London dear!’: Belated Decadence and the Queer City in Ronald Firbank’s Vainglory and Caprice”, which will be published in the forthcoming issue of Volupté.