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
Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 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, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
I specialise in EcoGothic/EcoWeird fiction and the Blue Humanities. I am currently finishing my PhD thesis on Weird Hydropoetics in Modern and Contemporary Fiction.
Email: fredrik.blanc@gmail.com
Affiliation: Linnaeus University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Johan Höglund is professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is the author of The American Climate Emergency Narrative (2024) and The American Imperial Gothic (2016).
Email: johan.hoglund@lnu.se
Affiliation: William & Mary
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
Kim Wheatley is Professor of English at William & Mary, USA. She is the author of Shelley and His Readers (1999) and Romantic Feuds (2013).
Email: kewhea@wm.edu
Affiliation: NOVA University Lisbon
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
PhD Candidate in Modern Literatures and Cultures. Member of the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. Fields of research include: (Neo)Victorianism, Gothic Literature, Vampire Fiction, Dystopian Studies and Video Game Studies.
Email: jessica.iolanda.bispo@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6952-8477
Affiliation: The Ohio State University at Marion
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: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Sara L. Crosby is a Professor of English at the Ohio State University at Marion. She has authored two books on poisonous women and has also published essays on ecohorror/ecoGothic in Cambridge’s History of the Gothic and in ISLE. Her current book project investigates the disastrous interplay between extractive interests and American popular culture’s representation of South Louisiana as a place of ecohorror.
Email: crosby.sara@gmail.com
Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Email: matthew.foley@mmu.ac.uk
