Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter) is a committed critical thinker who always historicizes. Her books have shaped the study of Victorian and modern culture with highly influential work on decadence, aesthetics and aestheticism, life-writing and subjectivity, economics, individualism, and globalization. Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986) considers the role of the artist in market society.  Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832-1920 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) analyzes the relationship of social class and gender to literary form.  The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) traces the moment when aesthetics and economics shifted from substantive to formal models and production to consumption.  She has just completed a study of individualism, ethics, and the nineteenth-century roots of globalization, and her current research is on the global circulation of the literatures of liberalism.