Keirán Morrissey-Fernández is a PhD student in the University of Limerick investigating the influence that Cervantes had on Charles Maturin.

Lobke Minter is a postdoctoral researcher at Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Her current project, ‘Forest Imaginaries, Colonial History and the Timber Commodity Frontier: Tree Plantations in South African Literature’, is a two-year research project funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.

Harry Rooke-Kelly is a postgraduate from Brunel University of London interested in Trans and Queer Gothic, the Cosmic, and more.

Niamh Clarke is an MA student in English (Teaching Literature and Writing) at the University of Virginia and is enrolled in UVA’s Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate program. Her work centers on nineteenth-century Irish Gothic writing, Irish short fiction, monster studies, and Digital Humanities methods involving OCR and large-scale text cleaning.

Xiaoxiang Ma is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, researching Hong Kong horror cinema, jiangshi films, cultural haunting, and identity.

Qin Wu is a PhD student in comparative literature whose project comparatively examines Gothic objects in eighteenth-century Chinese Gothic and Victorian Gothic literature.

Matteo Polato is a lecturer in digital media, sound artist and videogame developer. His research investigates the intersections between technology, space and contemporary paranormal practices.

Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska is a researcher at Jagiellonian University, Poland, specialising in gender, vampires, monstrosity, non/motherhood, and girlhood in Gothic, fantasy, and YA texts.

Pouya DolatiFard is a PhD researcher in North American Studies at the University of Göttingen, researching neo-Gothic narratives in contemporary American Gothic fiction while also working as a painter and visual artist.

Marijke Valk’s project examines the alchemical revival and the re-enchantment of science in fin-de-siècle fiction. Broader interests include: Gothic literature; occultism; supernaturalism; nineteenth-century (pseudo-) sciences.