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Kier-La Janisse

Affiliation: Severin Films

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Tourism and Travel
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts

Kier-La Janisse is the author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022), writer/director/producer of the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and a producer and acquisitions executive for Severin Films.

Email: bigsmashproductions@gmail.com
Website: https://www.kierlajanisse.com/

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Ailish Brassil

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Ailish Brassil is a PhD student studying domestic horror in Rebecca, Carrie, Matilda and Coraline.

Email: ailishbrassil24@gmail.com

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Alison Kloosterman

Affiliation: Trent 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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

I am a PhD student at Trent University writing about the ways that economic structures impact what is rendered monstrous in the early-modern Gothic novel.

Email: akloosterman@trentu.ca

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Kimberley Richardson

Affiliation: University of Warwick

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
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am an MA World Literature student at the University of Warwick with BA (Hons) English dissertation in fin de siècle Gothic masculinities from Birmingham City University.

Email: kimberley.richardson@warwick.ac.uk

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Heidi Backes

Affiliation: Missouri State University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Dr. Heidi Backes is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Missouri State University with a research focus on the neo-Gothic movement in Spain.

Email: hbackes@missouristate.edu

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Mara Adanto-Keledei

Affiliation: Pasadena City College

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic

Bookseller and student interested in racial horror and the Gothic.

Email: mkeledei@gmail.com
Website: http://soupgoth.com

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Hawwah Yiwen Chen

Affiliation: National Chengchi 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, 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, 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

I am a PhD student, particularly interested in Queer Gothic and the Gothic in Romantic and Victorian fiction.

Email: b96102129@gmail.com

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Furaha Mujynya

Affiliation: University of Lausanne

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic

I am an English Graduate student at the University of Lausanne, currently on exchange at Waseda University. My master’s thesis focuses on Japanese and American short story cycles (Yoko Ogawa, Kyotaro Nishimura, Hideo Okuda, Karen Tei Yamashita), with a focus on crime and horror fiction.

Email: furaha-pehoua.mujynya@unil.ch

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Tembi Charles

Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Black Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Vampires, Zombies

Tembi Charles is a 6th-year dual title PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies. Her research and teaching interests include the African Diaspora, Global Anglophone Literatures, Gender and Sexuality, African Literature, Criticism and Culture. Her dissertation examines textual representations of contemporary forced migration of black Zimbabweans to South Africa.

Email: txc372@psu.edu

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Mark Deggan

Affiliation: Simon Fraser University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Tropical Gothic

Mark Deggan is an Senior Lecturer in World Literature, Vancouver, Canada. He is an ecocritic with interest in performance studies, primarily researching the ecological poetics of “colonial” modernism.

Email: mark_deggan@sfu.ca

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