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…?”

Axel-Nathaniel Rose is an early career researcher in English and Creative Writing and based at UNSW. He researches Gothicism online, literary reception, and queer literature.

Charlotte Goodger is a PhD student investigating obstetric care in women’s Gothic writing from the 21st century.

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

Éamonn Shults is Utah Valley University’s 2025 Outstanding Graduate for the Department of English. He is currently preparing to pursue an MFA in creative writing, where he will focus his time writing literary horror and researching Gothic histories.

Megan Gannon is an Associate Professor of English and Ripon College. She is the author of three poetry collections, WHITE NIGHTGOWN, THE WITCH’S INDEX, and DISPATCH FROM EVERY SECOND GUESS, as well as a Gothic-leaning novel, CUMBERLAND.