Ceri Higgins

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Filmmaker and academic with a track record of international programme making. Author on Mexican cinema, factual filmmaking and the Gothic in cinema and TV.

Email: ordersceri@gmail.com

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Sophie Dungan

Affiliation: University of Warwick

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Vampires, Zombies

Sophie Dungan is a PhD student in English at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Reading the Vegetarian Vampire (Palgrave 2022).

Email: sophie.dungan@warwick.ac.uk
Website: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/sophie-dungan

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Andrew Mangham

Affiliation: University of Reading

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Andrew Mangham specialises in the intersections between nineteenth-century literature and the biological sciences. He is interested in crime, disease and injury, death, monstrosity, and other cheery matters.

Email: a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk
Website: https://www.reading.ac.uk/english-literature/our-staff/andrew-mangham

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Anna Tateson

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Games, Virtual Gothic

Games artist and gothicist

Email: annatateson@gmail.com

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Constance C Relihan

Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Constance C Relihan works on Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla and early modern prose fiction, as well as dark academia and university culture.

Email: ccrelihan@vcu.edu

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Mónica Casado-Folgado

Affiliation: University of Salamanca

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Graduate in Spanish Language and Literatures, Master in Hispanic Literatures and Theories of Literature, currently PhD candidate (FPU contract) at the University of Salamanca. I research political Gothic in recent Hispanic narratives.

Email: monicacasadofolgado@gmail.com
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monica-Casado-Folgado

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James Uden

Affiliation: Yale University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic

I’m a classicist, lover of Gothic literature, and author of a book on the classical roots of the eighteenth-century Gothic, Spectres of Antiquity (2020).

Email: james.uden@yale.edu

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Delaney Elliott

Affiliation: delaneyelliott3@gmail.com

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Regions and Cultures: Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

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Lex Croucher

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Lex Croucher writes fantasy and rom coms for adults and teenagers, and is the New York Times, Indie & USA Today bestselling author of GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE.

Email: lexcanroar@gmail.com
Website: https://www.lexcroucher.co.uk

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Maria Barreto

Affiliation: Emory University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Maria Barreto is an English PhD student at Emory University, specializing in contemporary Latin American Gothic, specifically researching the intersection of memory and identity.

Email: mabarr2@emory.edu

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