Professor Beauregarde Dion Delaire is a fictional Luxembourgeoise academic and esteemed visiting Professor to the University of Derby School of Arts.

Delaire, performed by Gemma Marmalade, undertook a year long academic residency from September 2019 to the closure of the University in March 2021 due to COVID-19,  teaching third year students of the BA (Hons) Photography programme on the development of their final body of work. This teaching provided cover for Gemma's doctoral research leave.

Students were introduced to Professor Delaire and their generous accomodation of this 'new academic' was embraced wholly, resulting in unexpected responses, including the arrival of 'James', a 'new student' to the programme, whose work considered the performativity of gender in commonplace environments.

The accompanying video illustrates one tutorial between Professor Delaire and James in mid-development towards their graduate show.