I am Associate Professor in Research at the University of Hertfordshire and the Convenor of the Open Graves, Open Minds project.

Sam Hirst works on the Gothic and theology in the early Gothic period, Gothic romance, and Queer Gothic Reimaginings.

Novelist and critic focused primarily on the Quantum Gothic—i.e. the implications of 20th c. Physics for the Gothic as manifested in books like the Passenger and Stella Maris.

Kristy is a PhD student in English Literature at UoW. She is a first-generation, non-traditional, mature student.

Siobhán Scarlett O’Reilly is a Media and Social Sciences PhD researcher at the University of Brighton. She has presented conference papers on Queer Horror, Fan Studies, Nostalgia and Digital Cultures. Her doctoral research delves into the influence of liminal space imagery on individuals’ well-being. To unravel the effects of these images on people’s well-being, she will employ photo-elicitation interviews (PEIs), a creative method often used to explore experiences of images. She holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, a Master’s degree in Global Film and Television and a Postgraduate Certificate in Screenwriting.

Writer and scholar. MFA in Writing, concentration in children and young adult literature, Vermont College of Fine Arts, ALM, Harvard, BA, UCLA.

Megan Stephens is a PhD student researching representations of death in contemporary fantastic film and television.

PhD in Hispanic Studies, specialized in contemporary Mexican Gothic/Horror fictions. Interested in Latin American Gothic.

I am Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Rochester. I have published on the ghosts of modernity in Mexico, supernatural film, and am currently working on Neo-Gothic women writers of Mexico.