Rebecca Duncan

Affiliation: Linnaeus University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Recent publications (in gothic studies): Decolonising Gothic, EUP Globalgothic. Forthcoming: The Cambridge Companion to World Gothic Literature. Interests: Political Ecology, World Literature, Decoloniality.

Email: rebecca.duncan@lnu.se
Website: https://lnu.se/en/staff/rebecca.duncan/

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Kala Hirtle Clarke

Affiliation: Dalhousie University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Kala Hirtle completed her PhD in English Literature at Dalhousie University where she studied 19th-century Gothic literature with a focus on altered states of consciousness, gender, and early vampire literature (texts published before Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula). She has presented on Gothic popular culture on topics such as The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King’s It, and many vampire texts.

Email: kala.hirtle@dal.ca

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Jeffrey A. Tolbert

Affiliation: Penn State Harrisburg

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Dr. Jeffrey A. Tolbert is a folklorist whose research focuses on vernacular belief and the supernatural, popular and traditional cultures (especially horror), and digital ethnography.

Email: jat639@psu.edu
Website: https://harrisburg.psu.edu/faculty-and-staff/jeffrey-tolbert

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Diana Andrews

Affiliation: University of British Columbia

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction

Student at the University of British Columbia.

Email: dianaljandrews@gmail.com

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Johnny Murray

Affiliation: Boston College

Research Areas:
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Creatures: Monsters

Johnny Murray is an author and scholar currently based in Boston, Massachusetts

Email: murrayug@bc.edu

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Damien Rasberry

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Gothic scholar from Texas, currently in the PhD application process. Aspiring college professor and overall goth nerd.

Email: damienrasberry@gmail.com

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Elizabeth Effinger

Affiliation: University of New Brunswick

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Elizabeth Effinger is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life (Anthem Press, 2024), editor of Erasing Frankenstein: A Public Humanities Prison Arts Project (forthcoming Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2024), and co-editor of William Blake’s Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (Manchester University Press, 2018).

Email: e.effinger@unb.ca

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Julia M. Wright

Affiliation: Dalhousie University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Irish Gothic

Julia M. Wright has published widely on Irish Romanticism and the Gothic. She is the author of five monographs, including Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television (Manchester University Press, 2016).

Email: julia.wright@dal.ca
Website: https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english/faculty-staff/dept-faculty-english/julia-wright.html

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Sophie Bellenberg

Affiliation: University of East Anglia

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic

I am a postgraduate researcher from the University of East Anglia. I am currently writing my PhD thesis on the Gothic in 1930s America, focusing on how the Gothic can be found in places where previously it has not been discovered…

Email: sophie_bellenberg@yahoo.co.uk

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Laura Kemmerer

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Master’s in English with focus on Gothic literature. Published in Gothic Nature, Ancillary Review of Books, and beyond. Independent researcher.

Email: LauraKemmererPWC@gmail.com

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