Jonathan Newell

Affiliation: Langara College

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Jonathan Newell is an instructor at snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College. His work focuses on weird fiction and the intersections between affect, metaphysics, and politics. His first monograph, A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror, was published in 2020 by the University of Wales Press.

Email: jnewell@langara.ca

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Allison Budaj

Affiliation: Joyce University of Nursing and Health Science

Research Areas:
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Creatures: Zombies

Allison Budaj holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies and is an Assistant Director of General Education at Joyce University of Nursing and Health Science.

Email: allisonbudaj@hotmail.com

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Julia Larsen

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Julia Larsen is a first year PhD student in Intermediality at the University of Edinburgh. She writes about queer vampires, monstrous women, and vampiric white supremacy.

Email: s2343649@ed.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/julia-larsen

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Kamalini Govender

Affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

Kamalini Govender is a lecturer in English Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Children’s Gothic with a focus on its relevance to South African literature.

Email: kamalini.govender@gmail.com

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Rachel Jekanowski

Affiliation: Memorial University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Dr. Rachel Jekanowski is an interdisciplinary scholar working between film and media studies and the energy humanities. Rachel works as an Assistant Professor of English at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus. She is Reviews Editor for Journal of Environmental Media and a Co-Editor of The Goose: Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada.

Email: rjekanowski@mun.ca

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West Ambrose

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

West Ambrose is an artist and a writer.

Email: westofcanon@gmail.com
Website: https://westofcanon.com/

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Graeme Wend-Walker

Affiliation: Texas State University

Research Areas:
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Asian Gothic, Nordic Gothic

Expatriate Australian in San Marcos, TX, a spring-fed idyll of mermaids and unicycles; sporadic author of short horror fiction.

Email: graeme@txstate.edu

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Emily Barber

Affiliation: University of Notre Dame

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts

I am a PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying Romantic and Victorian literature, with particular interests in the Gothic, religion, and ecocriticism.

Email: ebarber@nd.edu
Website: https://english.nd.edu/people/graduate-students/emily-barber

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Mike Thorn

Affiliation: University of New Brunswick

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Mike Thorn is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See.
He is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of English (Creative Writing) at the University of New Brunswick.

Email: mike.thorn@unb.ca
Website: https://mikethornwrites.com

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Madelyn Walsh

Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Caribbean Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

I am a fourth-year PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool. My research explores how exaqua is deployed in contemporary creative responses to the Zong Massacre.

Email: madelyn.walsh@liverpool.ac.uk

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