Affiliation: University of Glasgow
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires
Sonika Jaiganesh is currently researching the ontology of disease in Victorian gothic monster fiction.
Email: sonikajaiganesh1@gmail.com
Affiliation: University College London
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Joana Jacob Ramalho is a lecturer at University College London, specialising in gothic film with research focusing on memory, displacement, music, and failure.
Email: joana.ramalho@ucl.ac.uk
Affiliation: Penn State Harrisburg
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Hayley Billet is an American Studies PhD candidate at Penn State Harrisburg. Her areas of interest include gothic literature, the Ecogothic, and dark tourism.
Email: billeth123@gmail.com
Affiliation: Lancaster University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires
Ellie Shawcross is a PhD student at Lancaster University, researching her thesis ‘(Un)Natural Desires: Wildness and Abject Desire in the Contemporary Queer Horrorsphere’.
Email: e.shawcross1@lancaster.ac.uk
Affiliation: Lebanese University
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, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Teresa Rahi is an MA student in English Literature at the Lebanese University, Lebanon whose research sits at the intersection of Gothic literature, Posthumanism, and artificial intelligence.
Email: rahiteresa@hotmail.com
Affiliation: University of Bristol
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Greta Dunn is interested in EcoGothic, arboreal gothic, theological gothic, queer gothic and particularly gothic girlfriends.
Email: gd13769@bristol.ac.uk
Affiliation: Northumbria University
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
Lucy Swift is a first year PhD student researching liminality and hauntology in contemporary media.
Email: lucy.c.swift@northumbria.ac.uk
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Catherine Cook holds a Masters in Gothic literature.
Email: catherinescook71@gmail.com
Affiliation: Long Beach City College
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
James Bogdanski teaches at two colleges in Southern California, focusing on Gothic cinema, genre, screenwriting, film history, visual culture, and related media studies research.
Email: jbogdanski@lbcc.edu
Affiliation: University of New England (Australia)
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
Rebekah Brammer is a professional member of the Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts and Australian Film Critics Association, with over 30 papers published across a range of screen texts and topics. She commenced PhD candidature at the University of New England (Australia) in 2024, with her research based on screen ecologies in film and television produced and set in Tasmania. Her interests include Australian Gothic (and Noir) and Tasmanian Gothic (and Noir) in film and TV.
Email: rbrammer@myune.edu.au
Website: https://rebekahbrammer.wordpress.com