Keirán Morrissey-Fernández is a PhD student in the University of Limerick investigating the influence that Cervantes had on Charles Maturin.

Lobke Minter is a postdoctoral researcher at Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Her current project, ‘Forest Imaginaries, Colonial History and the Timber Commodity Frontier: Tree Plantations in South African Literature’, is a two-year research project funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.

Harry Rooke-Kelly is a postgraduate from Brunel University of London interested in Trans and Queer Gothic, the Cosmic, and more.

Researching nineteenth-century Irish Gothic fiction, examining how Catholic and Protestant writers represent the monstrous differently across sociocultural, religious, and political contexts.

Xiaoxiang Ma is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, researching Hong Kong horror cinema, jiangshi films, cultural haunting, and identity.

Qin Wu is a PhD student in comparative literature whose project comparatively examines Gothic objects in eighteenth-century Chinese Gothic and Victorian Gothic literature.

Matteo Polato is a lecturer in digital media, sound artist and videogame developer. His research investigates the intersections between technology, space and contemporary paranormal practices.

Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska is a researcher at Jagiellonian University, Poland, specialising in gender, vampires, monstrosity, non/motherhood, and girlhood in Gothic, fantasy, and YA texts.

Pouya DolatiFard is a PhD researcher in North American Studies at the University of Göttingen, researching neo-Gothic narratives in contemporary American Gothic fiction while also working as a painter and visual artist.

Marijke Valk’s project examines the alchemical revival and the re-enchantment of science in fin-de-siècle fiction. Broader interests include: Gothic literature; occultism; supernaturalism; nineteenth-century (pseudo-) sciences.