Affiliation: Long Beach City College
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
James Bogdanski teaches at two colleges in Southern California, focusing on Gothic cinema, genre, screenwriting, film history, visual culture, and related media studies research.
Email: jbogdanski@lbcc.edu
Affiliation: University of New England (Australia)
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
Rebekah Brammer is a professional member of the Australian Academy of Cinema Television Arts and Australian Film Critics Association, with over 30 papers published across a range of screen texts and topics. She commenced PhD candidature at the University of New England (Australia) in 2024, with her research based on screen ecologies in film and television produced and set in Tasmania. Her interests include Australian Gothic (and Noir) and Tasmanian Gothic (and Noir) in film and TV.
Email: rbrammer@myune.edu.au
Website: https://rebekahbrammer.wordpress.com
Affiliation: University of Southampton
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies
Writer/designer/researcher of poetry, games, sf, utopia. Monstrous neoliberal subjecthood. Mr Blobby. Digital culture. Gothic reminds us that ‘The World’ isn’t real, but will kill you.
Email: f.gene-rowe@soton.ac.uk
Website: https://goblin-futures.itch.io
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Meghan Hewitt (she/her)
BA English Literature and History, Trinity College Dublin.
MA Issues in Modern Culture, University College London. Thesis: Identifying the Digital Individual: Establishing the Self within Collaborative Digital Horror.
Email: meghan.hewittf@gmail.com
Website: https://linktr.ee/thefloodflow
Affiliation: The Graduate Center CUNY
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Ivana Prelević-Mrdak is undertaking a PhD in French, specialising in 19th-century French Gothic, gender, and abjection; teaches at Queens College (CUNY) and directs a legal translation company.
Email: iprelevic@gc.cuny.edu
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Sina Raeder is a postgrad independent Gothic scholar with a focus on genre evolution, phenomenological readings of haunted houses, and lesbian vampires.
Email: sina@schmudlach.de
Affiliation: Lincoln Bishop University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts
Sol McIntyre is a PhD student researching trauma and hauntings in the American Gothic.
Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Taylor Hall is an MA student at MMU.
Email: taylor.r.hall@stu.mmu.ac.uk
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Boston
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Creole Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
English 101 and 102 professor; research areas and interests- 20th and 21st century American, French, and Irish independent lit/films and the Gothic: postcolonial, eco, folk, and southern gothic; research questions surrounding memory, the mind, atrocity and non-representation, haunting, nostalgia, and film form.
Email: s7roberts@bridgew.edu
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Dania Idriss is a Lebanese-Canadian author and a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Her writing focuses on global gothic, particularly Arabic speculative fiction. Her first book was published in Spring 2026.
Email: didriss22@gmail.com
