Kaylee Cheyenne Jule Lamb

Affiliation: University of Florida

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Kaylee Lamb is fifth year PhD student whose research centers on the relationality between Black and Indigenous Gothic.

Email: kaylee.lamb@ufl.edu

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Zoe Zavrotny

Affiliation: University College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Zoe Zavrotny is a PhD student at University College Dublin completing a thesis on Irish Victorian horror literature as a form of life writing.

Email: zoezavrotny@gmail.com

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Anna Maria Ronewicz

Affiliation: University of Szczecin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Games, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Anna Maria Ronewicz is a PhD student at the University of Szczecin, working on a dissertation on queer liminality in weird fiction audio drama.

Email: anna.ronewicz@usz.edu.pl

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Christine Bruening

Affiliation: Louisiana State University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts
Regions and Cultures: Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Christine Bruening is a digital artist and researcher exploring representations of women in horror, motherhood, and the aesthetics of violence as a lens for catharsis.

Email: cbruening@lsu.edu
Website: https://christinebruening.squarespace.com/

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Anne Veronica Hierholzer Conover

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Anne Veronica Hierholzer Conover is a multi-genre fiction writer and resides in Central Virginia, USA. She has a growing library of Gothic action/adventure novels.

Email: avhconover0973@gmail.com

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Karen Grumberg

Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Karen Grumberg, a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution (Indiana UP, 2019) and the editor of Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past (University of Wales Press, 2022).

Email: keren@austin.utexas.edu

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Stephen Spark

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

Independent student of Gothic literature and architecture. Writing novel on Romanian vampire in Surrey seeking revenge. Interests include goth/darkwave music, soucouyants, Surrey legends, water spirits.

Email: trafton.editorial@gmail.com

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Emma Kohen

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Creative writing PhD student researching all things queer Gothic literature.

Email: emmakohen@hotmail.com

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Kristoffer S. Ekroll

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Kristoffer S. Ekroll is a recent  graduate from the University of California, Riverside English program. Researches the use of space, place, and architecture in primarily Nordic and Anglophone Gothic.

Email: krisekroll@live.com
Website: https://krisekroll.wordpress.com/

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JJ Mokrzewski

Affiliation: York University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

JJ Mokrzewski is a writer, musician, and scholar from Toronto. She is currently pursuing an MA in Cinema and Media Studies at York University

Email: jjshevski@gmail.com

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