Xavier is Reader in English Literature and Film and Manchester Metropolitan and co-lead of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies.

I’m a British Academy Global Professor and Associate Professor, researching Black Gothic, racial representation in Gothic literature and Horror Film, and sociopolitcal appropriations of Gothic and Horror tropes.

Professor of Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, NCKU

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.

Teacher, researcher and careworn academic manager for decades. 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.

Brontë Schiltz recently completed an MA with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. Her research interests include the queer Gothic, televisual Gothic and neoliberal Gothic.

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.