Esko Roininen is a doctoral researcher in Literary Studies at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on Gothic literature, narrative space, and the literary representation of phenomenological experience. In his dissertation, he explores spatial experience and the subjective depiction of space in the Gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe. His broader academic interests include the tradition of spatial literary studies, horror fiction, and questions of subjectivity and experientiality in narrative.

Lily Kohler is pursuing an MA in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Interests in Queer Gothic, Female Gothic, and Gothic of the American Midwest and Great Lakes.

Ellesse Patterson recently began her second year as a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. She is AHRC funded through the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH). Her thesis, ‘Monstrous Reproduction and Nation in the Long Nineteenth-Century British Gothic’, examines the intersection of life, death, and national terror embedded within Gothic reproduction narratives. She has previously published her research in Gothic Studies and regularly presents her research on the Gothic at conferences in the UK and internationally.

Her passion for the Gothic was ignited when she read Angela Carter’s anthology of dark fairy-tales, The Bloody Chamber and Other Tales, during her BA in English and History, sparking a deep interest in weird fiction and the macabre. After falling in love with Carter, Ellesse began to voraciously read the works of authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Mary Shelley, and Bram Stoker.

Outside of her PhD, Ellesse enjoys creative writing, spoiling her cats, baking, exploring new places, and taking long walks (usually with a coffee in hand). She loves learning strange historical facts and thinks the best conversation starter opens with, “Did you know…?”

Charlotte Goodger is a full-time PhD student researching the evolution of medical gothic through reproductive medicine and 21^st century women writers in the gothic mode.

Luke Moloney is a PhD researcher attached to MMU’s Centre for Gothic Studies.

Currently pursuing a Master’s in Victorian Gothic: History, Literature and Culture at the University of Portsmouth. Holds a BA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Sussex. Research interests include Gothic studies with a focus on vampires, class, lesbian identity, monstrosity, and isolation in literature and culture.

Kate Garrett-Nield is a postgraduate research student at the University of Birmingham, investigating the writing of Daphne du Maurier through a hauntological lens.

R Adam Wright is a dual credit British Literature teacher and an English PhD student at Liberty University, researching how Gothic literature applies to modernity.

Hatice Karaman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Yeditepe University. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature, an MA in English Literature, and a PhD in Philosophy. Her MA thesis focused on novels by Orhan Pamuk, Pierre Loti and Cornelia Golna, investigating the city, Istanbul, as a rhizomatic space of desire following the reflections of Deleuze & Guattari. In her doctoral dissertation, she analysed selected Shakespearean tragedies, pursuing the idea of spectral justice in the plays