Affiliation: Boston College
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic
Ken Haley is currently in the English PhD program at Boston College.
Email: haleykm@bc.edu
Affiliation: McMaster University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
PhD candidate studying the Romantic Gothic works of Mary Robinson at McMaster University.
Email: wagstaa@mcmaster.ca
Affiliation: Penn State University, Wilkes-Barre
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
As a professor of English, Christyne teaches courses in Gothic short fiction, video, and film; international crime and detection; science fiction; and professional writing since 1998.
Email: cab39@psu.edu
Affiliation: California Polytechnic State University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Noah Gallego is a Teacher’s Associate at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. He specializes in ecogothic, cybergothic, and oriental gothic criticism.
Email: noahrgallego@gmail.com
Affiliation: MacEwan University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
An English Instructor with research interest in Gothic mad science of the long 19th century, creative writer, tutor through kihêw waciston Indigenous Centre, and municipal grave keeper in the summer months.
Email: HammS2@macewan.ca
Affiliation: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Amanda Jo Hobson is a scholar/practitioner whose work centers on gender, relationship, and sexual diversities within popular culture, most frequently focusing on monsters and the monstrous.
Email: amandajohobson@gmail.com
Website: https://amandajohobson.com/
Affiliation: Weber State University
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Rebekah Cumpsty is Associate Professor of Anglophone World Literature at Weber State University. Her research interests include postcolonial, world and African literatures, religion, postsecular and the Gothic.
Email: rebekahcumpsty@weber.edu
Affiliation: Stevenson University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Creatures: Monsters
Ashley Kniss is an Associate Professor and Director of Writing at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, Maryland. Her research interests include American Gothic literature, ecohorror, the ethics of waste, American religious history, apocalypse, and the Posthuman. Her chapter, “‘The hand of deadly decay’: The Rotting Corpse, America’s Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe’s ‘The Colloquy of Monos and Una'” can be found the 2021 publication, Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene. Her writing can also be found in Gothic Nature, Poe Studies, and on ASLE’s series on teaching ecohorror.
Email: ashley.anne.kniss@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Period: 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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Shelagh Rowan-Legg, PhD, is an independent researcher, film critic & curator, aspiring game writer, and poet. Her book The Spanish Fantastic was published in 2016.
Email: shelagh.film@gmail.com
Website: https://shelaghrowanlegg.com
Affiliation: University of Sheffield
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Zhengxin Lin (she/her) is a third-year PGR at the University of Sheffield. Her research investigates contemporary British Gothic and the representation of doubling. Viewing the revival of the doubling as the Gothic’s consumption of history, her thesis examines how those unsolved historical problems haunt the present.
Email: 2543196760@qq.com
