Abigail Mills

Affiliation: Loughborough University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Arctic Gothic, English Gothic

Abigail Mills is a PhD student at Loughborough University interested in all things weird, dark and gothic. Her research focuses more specifically on how water, at once utterly familiar and yet profoundly unknowable, has developed from serving as a backdrop for weirdness, to becoming a weird element in its own right.

Email: a.t.mills@lboro.ac.uk

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Steve Golliot Villers

Affiliation: IAE UPVD

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens

Steve Golliot Villers is currently working on a PhD in CCT (CCG) about HR Giger and Alien.

Email: gwendrael@hotmail.com

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Elena Ippendorf

Affiliation: Universität Klagenfurt

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, Games, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Elena Ippendorf is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Klagenfurt’s English Department, investigating Haunted Welsh Landscapes, Contemporary Crime Narratives, and ‘Monstrous’ Bodies.

Email: elena.ippendorf@aau.at

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Elleanna Jenkins

Affiliation: Lancaster University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Elleanna Jenkins is a PhD student at Lancaster University, researching ‘Gothic Employment: Corporate Horror in American Popular Fiction 1975-present’.

Email: elleannaj@gmail.com

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Affiliation: Jadavpur University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Arctic Gothic

Student

Email: dipyamanb2020@gmail.com

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Marie Mulvey-Roberts

Affiliation: University of the West of England

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic

Emeritus Professor Marie Mulvey-Roberts is the author, editor and co-editor of over thirty books, many of which relate to gender and the Gothic.

Email: marie.mulvey-roberts@uwe.ac.uk

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Victoria Keeble

Affiliation: Portsmouth University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Current student on the Victorian Gothic MA at Portsmouth University. Academic and professional background in science and philosophy.

Email: victoria_keeble@hotmail.com

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Emma Johnson-Rivard

Affiliation: University of Cincinnati

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Emma Johnson-Rivard is a doctoral student in creative writing with an emphasis on horror fiction at the University of Cincinnati. Her creative work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Tales to Terrify, Red Flag Poetry, and others.

Email: ejohnsonrivard@gmail.com
Website: https://www.emmajohnson-rivard.com

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Heather Oriana Petrocelli

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Heather O. Petrocelli, PhD, writer‑critic‑filmmaker, horror aficionado, post‑binary dyke scholar centering queerness; author of Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator.

Email: heatheroriana@proton.me

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Bárbara Aranda C.

Affiliation: University of Regensburg

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Bárbara Aranda C. is a doctoral researcher at DIMAS, University of Regensburg. Her research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature, particularly examining how genres and modes such as horror, gothic, fantastic, and travel narratives engage with cultural and political imaginaries. She is especially interested in how these narratives articulate issues of memory, space and identity, often drawing on decolonial and postcolonial perspectives. She also incorporates gender studies into her work, examining the intersection of gender and violence, and its representation in literary and visual cultures.

Email: barbara.aranda@zea.uni-regensburg.de
Website: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/en/university/dimas/team/barbara-aranda

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