Nesreen Al-Harby

Affiliation: King Abdulaziz University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Dr. Nesreen Al-Harby is an Associate Professor of English Literature and cultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.

Email: naalharby@kau.edu.sa

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Erin Shea

Affiliation: University of New Orleans

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

Chronically ill and disabled writer, grad student, and Pushcart-nominated poet.

Email: erins2001@gmail.com

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Barbara Braid

Affiliation: University of Szczecin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Szczecin, specialising in neo-Victorianism, biofiction, adaptation and popular literature and culture.

Email: barbara.braid@usz.edu.pl

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Olga Mek

Affiliation: olgamek787@gmail.com

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

I got a degree in the Education of Art from the Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa (2010) and also in Instrumental Studies (the piano class) from the same university. In 2013, I completed a Music Therapy programme at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. I also completed a doctoral interdisciplinary programme in Humanities at the University of Warsaw (2019). In 2022, I completed postgraduate studies specializing in the History of Music and Contemporary Musical Culture at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Email: https://independent.academia.edu/OlgaMek

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John H Moralee

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, Scottish Gothic

Interested in the transcendent quality of Gothic architecture.

Email: mncmfarm21@gmail.com

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Shauna Louise Caffrey

Affiliation: Maynooth University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Shauna Louise Caffrey is a PhD student of musicology, researching witchcraft, music and magic on the seventeenth-century operatic stage.

Email: scaffreyartsculture@gmail.com

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Roxanne Douglas

Affiliation: University of Warwick

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, English Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Dr Roxanne Douglas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, the University of Warwick. She is the co-founder and leader of the Women in World-Literature project, which comprises of regular conferences and a global network. Roxanne specialises in bringing together feminist theory, world-literary theories, and Gothic, Horror and the Weird (GoHoW) genre studies. Her first book, Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women’s World-Literature: “Living with Ghosts” was published with Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘New Comparisons in World Literature’ series. She has previously published in Hypatia, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of World Systems Research, and more. Her current research focuses on global women’s apocalyptic writing.

Email: roxanne.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk
Website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/about/community/p2k/roxannedouglas

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Ruth-Anne Walbank

Affiliation: University of Warwick

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Ruth-Anne Walbank’s research focuses on theology and the EcoGothic in 19th-century literature from Northern England, including the Gothic industrial and working-class Gothic.

Email: ruthannewalbank@gmail.com
Website: https://linktr.ee/ruthannewalbank

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Zoey Hughes

Affiliation: University of Washington

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: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Zoey Hughes is an Appalachian-born scholar of monstrosity and sexuality.

Email: hughesze@uw.edu

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