Professor of the Foreign Languages and Literature Department, National Cheng Kung University.

University of Arizona Distinguished Professor Emeritus; Past President of the International Gothic Association; Books include The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera; the Cambridge Companions to Gothic Fiction and the Modern Gothic; and The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion.

Dr Mary Going is a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion and theology with the Gothic.

Doctoral researcher and tutor working on contemporary Scottish and Postcolonial literatures engaging with the Gothic to investigate transgenerational trauma and legacy of colonialism.

Sue Zlosnik is an Emeritus Professors, was a teacher, researcher and careworn academic manager for decades, and is still collaborating with Avril Horner but otherwise resting, except when tempted by particularly exciting projects.

Professor of American Literature and author of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic (2010) and several essay editions on Gothic topics.

Lecturer in English and BBC New Generation Thinker specialising in Cornwall, coasts, seas, queer ecologies, Shirley Jackson, Ann Radcliffe, sonic Gothic. Haunted Shores Network co-founder.

Associate Professor in the Department of English. Research focuses on monsters, haunted houses, ghost hunting technology, Gothic technologies and anxieties at the turns of centuries.

Mariaconcetta Costantini is full professor of English Literature at G. d’Annunzio University, Italy. Her research primarily focuses on Victorian literature and culture, with a special interest in the Gothic, the sensation novel and crime fiction. Since 2007 she has been IGA executive.