Nicola Belte

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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Nicola Belte is a writer of weird things (for kids and adults) and a PhD student researching the female body in folk horror fiction.

Email: nicola.belte@gmail.com

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Darian Wharton

Affiliation: University of New Mexico

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Monsters, Vampires

Darian Wharton is a PhD student at UNM, and is interest in how Gothic stories and anxieties change for the culture they are written in and is exploring how Scotland, Ireland, and Wales’s expression of anxiety within Gothic novels.

Email: dwharton@unm.edu

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Sonja Zimmermann

Affiliation: University of Stirling

Research Areas:
Period: 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
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, English Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Sonja Zimmermann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Stirling, researching the History of Emotions and queer feelings in (American) Gothic and horror fiction.

Email: sonja.zimmermann89@gmail.com

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Rigoberto Gutiérrez Piñón

Affiliation: University of Washington

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Zombies

Rigoberto Gutiérrez Piñón is a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington, researching the mediation of historical trauama and political/narco violence in Latin American zombie cultural productions.

Email: rigoguti12@gmail.com

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Damla Campion

Affiliation: Lancaster University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires

Damla Campion’s research explores queer readings of fantastika fictions, with a consideration of how drag artists use the fantastika genre to negotiate their identities.

Email: d.campion@lancaster.ac.uk

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Elena Andonova-Kalapsazova

Affiliation: South-West University "Neofit Rilski"

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

Elena Andonova-Kalapsazova is a lecturer of English literature at the Faculty of Philology at the South-West University (Bulgaria), currently working on a monograph on Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic romances.

Email: andonova.elena@gmail.com

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Barbara Hughes-Moore

Affiliation: Cardiff University

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, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Barbara Hughes-Moore is a writer, poet, and lecturer in law, literature and the Gothic. Her debut monograph is due out with Routledge in summer 2026.

Email: hughes-moorebe@cardiff.ac.uk
Website: https://thelawlass.wordpress.com

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Sarah Hourie

Affiliation: University of Manitoba

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Sarah Hourie is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Indigenous Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of City Planning at the University of Manitoba.

Email: sarah.hourie@umanitoba.ca

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Joseph Howsin

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Asian Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Joe Howsin (he/him) is a PhD researcher with Manchester Metropolitan University studying the psychologised Gothic, trauma literature, and depictions of mental illness and suicide. His main research areas are 20th century Modernism and contemporary literature.

Email: JOSEPH.HOWSIN@stu.mmu.ac.uk
Website: https://joehowsin.com/

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Sofia Macchi Watts

Affiliation: Monash University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic

Sofia Macchi Watts is a PhD candidate researching the Gothic Erotic and contemporary Gothic romance.

Email: sofia.macchiwatts@monash.edu

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