Xiaoxiang Ma is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, researching Hong Kong horror cinema, jiangshi films, cultural haunting, and identity.

Qin Wu is a PhD student in comparative literature whose project comparatively examines Gothic objects in eighteenth-century Chinese Gothic and Victorian Gothic literature.

Matteo Polato is a lecturer in digital media, sound artist and videogame developer. His research investigates the intersections between technology, space and contemporary paranormal practices.

Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska is a researcher at Jagiellonian University, Poland, specialising in gender, vampires, monstrosity, non/motherhood, and girlhood in Gothic, fantasy, and YA texts.

Pouya DolatiFard is a PhD researcher in North American Studies at the University of Göttingen, researching neo-Gothic narratives in contemporary American Gothic fiction while also working as a painter and visual artist.

Marijke Valk’s project examines the alchemical revival and the re-enchantment of science in fin-de-siècle fiction. Broader interests include: Gothic literature; occultism; supernaturalism; nineteenth-century (pseudo-) sciences.

Abigail Mills is a PhD student at Loughborough University interested in all things weird, dark and gothic. Her research focuses more specifically on how water, at once utterly familiar and yet profoundly unknowable, has developed from serving as a backdrop for weirdness, to becoming a weird element in its own right.

Steve Golliot Villers is currently working on a PhD in CCT (CCG) about HR Giger and Alien.

Elena Ippendorf is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of Klagenfurt’s English Department, investigating Haunted Welsh Landscapes, Contemporary Crime Narratives, and ‘Monstrous’ Bodies.

Elleanna Jenkins is a PhD student at Lancaster University, researching ‘Gothic Employment: Corporate Horror in American Popular Fiction 1975-present’.