Sharmila Ghanekar

Affiliation: The University of British Columbia

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Zombies

Sharmila Ghanekar (she/her) is an MA English student at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include Posthuman, Queer and Feminist theory.

Email: sharmilajoyghanekar@gmail.com

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William Ellis

Affiliation: Loughborough College

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Black Gothic
Creatures: Zombies

Email: 301885@student.loucoll.ac.uk

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Rikard Wennerholm

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Lifelong reader and viewer of Gothic fictions and adjacent arts. Student of secondary literature, shedding light on our shared passion. There’s so much beauty and desire in Gothic’s darkness and dread.

Email: rwx@mac.com

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Cláudia Maria Carmo Torvaldo Margarido da Costa

Affiliation: Universidade Aberta

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Cláudia Maria Carmo Torvaldo Margarido da Costa is currently doing a Masters degree in Comparative Studies – Literature and Other Arts, and is an afficionado of the Gothic style in all forms of art.

Email: claudia.tcosta@gmail.com

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Alex Philp

Affiliation: Griffith University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Creatures: Animals

Alex Philp is an award-winning writer and academic. Her research includes both creative practice and scholarship; her interests include Gothic representations of sister relationships in literature and on screen, uncanny spaces, short fiction and screenwriting.

Alex’s short fiction has appeared in national publications such as The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review, Overland and elsewhere. She was awarded a fellowship by Screen Queensland to attend the Sidewalk Narrative Lab in Birmingham, Alabama (2023) and most recently she was selected for Screen Queensland’s inaugural Writers’ Room program (2025). She has completed residencies at Can Serrat International Art Residency (Barcelona) and Varuna, The National Writers’ House (NSW).

Actively engaged beyond the university, Alex frequently and passionately collaborates with Queensland high schools such as Queensland Academy of Creative Industries and All Hallows’ School to design industry-focussed creative writing workshops for young writers.

Email: a.philp@griffith.edu.au
Website: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/54162-alex-philp/about

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Yannik Nöhrhoff

Affiliation: University of Koblenz

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Yannik Nöhrhoff is a PhD student and junior lecturer working on Hauntology and the 18th century Gothic.

Email: ynoehrhoff@uni-koblenz.de
Website: https://www.uni-koblenz.de/de/philologie-kulturwissenschaften/anglistik/anglistik-amerikanistik/institut/yannik-noehrhoff

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Karol Winnicki

Affiliation: SWPS University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

An avid Gothic enthusiast currently pursuing a PhD in literature.

Email: kwinnicki1@st.swps.edu.pl

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Shiraz Ahmad

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Shiraz Ahmad’s work focuses on the realization of emerging conventions of the Gothic canon and their potential as a possible subgenre-Psyche Gothic.

Email: zarihs04@gmail.com
Website: https://www.amazon.com/author/shirazahmad

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Kenly Corya

Affiliation: East Carolina University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

Kenly Corya is an English Studies MA student at East Carolina University. Her current research interests are centered upon the Queer Gothic and sapphic vampires.

Email: coryakenly@gmail.com

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Molly Williams

Affiliation: University of Cambridge

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Molly Williams is a Gates Cambridge Scholar and PhD student researching the intersection of nineteenth-century literature and horticulture through the application of the glass house and cultivated nature.

Email: mew73@cam.ac.uk
Website: www.mollyewilliams.com

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