Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
My name is Berkay Çelebi and Gothic Literature has always been one of my favorite genre while doing my Bachelor’s Degree, and now currently in my Master’s degree thesis, I have decided to continue to work on Gothic Literature.
Email: berkay1250@gmail.com
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Mark Algee-Hewitt is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Stanford University. His work applies computational methods to literature of the long 18th century.
Email: malgeehe@stanford.edu
Affiliation: Ege University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Ceren Ordu received her Bachelor’s degree from Ege University, Faculty of Letters/Department of American Culture and Literature in 2022. Currently, she is a Master’s student in the same department at Ege University. Her areas of interest include but are not limited to Gothic, Eco-Gothic, Cli-Fi, Poetry, and Popular Culture.
Email: cerenordu0@gmail.com
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Bernice M. Murphy specialises in the American Gothic in fiction and film and is also a Shirley Jackson specialist.
Email: bernicemurphy55@gmail.com
Website: https://www.tcd.ie/English/staff/academic-staff/bernice-murphy.php
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
I hold a PhD in Shakespeare Studies specialising in the early modern female body, especially the ageing body. I take a cross-disciplinary approach to my independent research, lately focusing on arctic horror, body horror and the films of David Cronenberg.
Email: vickymcmahon@shaw.ca
Affiliation: University of Southern Denmark
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Rune Graulund is the co-author of Grotesque (2013) and Dark Scenes From Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (2022) as well as a range of articles and chapters on the Gothic and the grotesque on subjects such as “Desert Globalgothic”, “The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth: The Imaginary of the Antarctic as Deserta”, “Posthuman Horror (and Hope)”, “The Zombie Tropocalypse”, “Nanodead: Technologies of Death”, “Restrained Excess: Where Sophistication Meets Excess” and, with Timothy Morton, “The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return”.
Email: graulund@sdu.dk
Website: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/graulund
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Sharon Bolton has PhD in Criminology and works as an academic in the UK. She has a long time interest in Gothic studies.
Email: sharonb99@gmail.com
Affiliation: Wesleyan University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I am an undergraduate student at Wesleyan University studying Romance Languages and Literatures alongside Philosophy.
Email: asutter@wesleyan.edu
Posted July 2, 2024 by Sara Wasson
We are delighted to announce the short lists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph best advancing the field of Gothic studies and the inaugural Justin D. Edwards Prize for the edited collection best advancing the field of Gothic studies.
We are delighted to announce the short lists for this year’s two IGA Book Prizes: the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for the monograph best advancing the field of Gothic studies and the inaugural Justin D. Edwards Prize for the edited collection best advancing the field of Gothic studies.
This year we had 28 books long listed across the two prizes. This is our largest ever field, and a clear testament to the thriving scholarship of Gothic studies. The panel members generously dedicated weeks of their summer to reading the 14 (or, in some cases, 28) books: a significant time commitment, for which we sincerely thank them all.
The Monographs prize committee, in alphabetical order, comprised Professor Carol Davison, Professor Marie Mulvey Roberts, Professor Catherine Spooner, and Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson (Chair). The Edited Collections committee comprised Dr Joseph Crawford, Professor Carol Davison, Professor Jason Haslam, Dr Tim Jones, and Dr Sara-Patricia Wasson (Chair). Huge thanks are also due to Dr Matthew Foley for careful and meticulous work as Secretary of the prize and liaison with publishers.
Before announcing the shortlists, we would like to congratulate every single author on the long list. It was a privilege to read your work, and every panellist had a very difficult task to narrow down the works to be shortlisted. We hope that every long-listed author feels proud of their achievement.
The shortlisted works in each prize are as follows.
Shortlist for the Allan Lloyd Smith Prize 2024 for a monograph best advancing the field of gothic studies, in alphabetical order:
Shortlist for the Justin D. Edwards Prize 2024 for an edited collection best advancing the field of gothic studies, in alphabetical order:
The Prizes will be announced at the IGA Conference at Mount-Saint Vincent University in Halifax in late July. If a prize winner is not present at the conference, the Chair will contact them by email after the awards announcement. After the conference has ended, a blog post will also celebrate the prize winners.
Congratulations to all the short-listed authors!
Affiliation: Saint Louis University
Research Areas:
Period: 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, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Alexa Broemmer is a PhD candidate studying the portrayal of women and food in horror and horror-adjacent media.
Email: alexa.broemmer@slu.edu