Francesca Saggini
Affiliation: Università della Tuscia
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, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Dr Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. Francesca is the author of, among others, The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable Mention at the 2016 ESSE Book Awards) and Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies). In 2021-2023, Francesca was PI on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded project at the University of Edinburgh (Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences, OpeRaNew, Grant ID. 892230).
Email: fsaggini@unitus.it
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1600-5821
Jessica Monaco
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Jessica Monaco is a PhD candidate in the Stanford University English Department. Her cross-temporal research combines 19th-century British literature, digital humanities, and current medieval studies.
Email: jmmonaco@stanford.edu
Laura Davidel
Affiliation: Université de Lorraine
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires
Laura Davidel researches Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, liminality and monstrosity.
Email: contact@lauradavidel.com
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth
Affiliation: Stanford University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Games, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
My research centers on formal and structural elements of female Gothic texts, focusing especially on how these components relate to monstrosity.
Email: Alexia4@stanford.edu
Julia Drewnowicz
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, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Julia Drewnowicz is an MA English Literature student interested in Gothic/horror literature, femininity perspectives and critiques of psychoanalysis.
Email: juliadrewnowicz9@gmail.com
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
Affiliation: Goethe University Frankfurt
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the New English Literatures and Cultures Department of the Institute of English and American Studies. After finishing my studies at Freie Universität Berlin (BA and MA) with a thesis on the Postcolonial Gothic in Australia, I earned my PhD as part of the joint programme between Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and Goethe University with a thesis titled “Unsettling the Anthropocene: Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature.” My postdoctoral project explores intergenerational justice in transcultural Anglophone texts, but I remain interested in various forms of the Gothic.
Email: k.bartha.mitchell@gmail.com
Stefanie Tegeler
Affiliation: University of Münster
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Stefanie Tegeler is a research associate and doctoral student at the University of Münster. Her research primarily focuses on 19th century literature and speculative fiction.
Email: stefanie.tegeler@web.de
Website: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Research/British_Studies/people/stefanietegeler.html
Nicole C. Dittmer
Affiliation: The College of New Jersey
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
Nicole Dittmer is a lecturer of Victorian Gothic Studies at The College of New Jersey, proofreader and editorial board member at Studies in Gothic Fiction, and advisory board member of Ecocritical Theory and Practice for Rowman & Littlefield’s imprint, Lexington Books. She has a PhD in Gothic Studies from Manchester Metropolitan University, where she researched penny publications, medical humanities, and ecocriticism in the nineteenth century.
Email: ncdittmer@gmail.com
Website: www.nicoledittmer.com
Yuko Ito
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
Yuko Ito is a researcher on Horace Walpole.
Email: yukoito2@gmail.com