Charlotte Winter

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Charlotte Winter is a PhD researcher in weird fiction and fungi at the University of Birmingham.

Anastasia A. Lipinskaya

Affiliation: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I teach foreign literature, mostly English and American, and I’m part of a team that prepares Russian annotated collections of classic ghost stories.

Email: nastya.lipinska@gmail.com

Annachiara Cozzi

Affiliation: University of Pavia

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Annachiara Cozzi is a post-doc researcher at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests include collaboration studies, Victorian popular fiction, the Irish Gothic, and colonial and postcolonial Indian studies.

Email: annachiara.cozzi@unipv.it

Gaïd Girard

Affiliation: Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Gaïd Girard is professor emeritus at the UBO in Brest, France. She has published on Irish Gothic (Sheridan Le Fanu) and cinema (Gothic and science fiction).

Amanda Rutherford

Affiliation: Auckland University of Technology

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Amanda Rutherford works in the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is a member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, International Gothic Association, the Pacific Modern and Ancient Language Association and the Northeast Modern Language Association. Her interests include mediated popular culture, fairytale, fantasy, Gothic and horror.

Email: nrutherford@xtra.co.nz

Stephanie Farnsworth

Affiliation: University of Sunderland

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Sunderland. My research creates mutant theory, an expansion on monster theory.

Email: steph.v.farnsworth@gmail.com

Agnieszka Kotwasinska

Affiliation: University of Warsaw

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
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I’m an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, the University of Warsaw. I research embodiment in horror, schizoanalysis, queer death studies, and feminist and queer criticism.

Email: a.kotwasinska@uw.edu.pl

Sayantan Lahiri

Affiliation: University of Hyderabad

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Sayantan Lahiri is currently working as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) funded Research Intern at the University of Hyderabad, India. The research project focuses on establishing decolonial Indian Research Methodologies (IRM) from Sanskrit Texts. After finishing his MA in English Literature (gold medalist) from the same university, he wishes to pursue research in the areas of postcolonial Gothic, ageing studies, medical humanities, Indian writing in English, posthumanism and cultural studies.

Email: some700065@gmail.com

Louise Seager

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am an Honours student at Australian Catholic University, working on a thesis that explores the relationship between women and monstrosity in Gothic literature.

Kasturi Ghosh

Affiliation: University of Waterloo

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

My research reads Gothic fiction of the American South as the outcome of forced identities/ boundaries and the re-emergence of the South’s plural characteristics.

Email: kasturi.ghosh1@uwaterloo.ca