Elizabeth Effinger

Affiliation: University of New Brunswick

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Elizabeth Effinger is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life (Anthem Press, 2024), editor of Erasing Frankenstein: A Public Humanities Prison Arts Project (forthcoming Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2024), and co-editor of William Blake’s Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (Manchester University Press, 2018).

Email: e.effinger@unb.ca

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Julia M. Wright

Affiliation: Dalhousie University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Irish Gothic

Julia M. Wright has published widely on Irish Romanticism and the Gothic. She is the author of five monographs, including Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in US Television (Manchester University Press, 2016).

Email: julia.wright@dal.ca
Website: https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/english/faculty-staff/dept-faculty-english/julia-wright.html

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Sophie Bellenberg

Affiliation: University of East Anglia

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic

I am a postgraduate researcher from the University of East Anglia. I am currently writing my PhD thesis on the Gothic in 1930s America, focusing on how the Gothic can be found in places where previously it has not been discovered…

Email: sophie_bellenberg@yahoo.co.uk

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Laura Kemmerer

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Master’s in English with focus on Gothic literature. Published in Gothic Nature, Ancillary Review of Books, and beyond. Independent researcher.

Email: LauraKemmererPWC@gmail.com

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Berkay Çelebi

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic

My name is Berkay Çelebi and Gothic Literature has always been one of my favorite genre while doing my Bachelor’s Degree, and now currently in my Master’s degree thesis, I have decided to continue to work on Gothic Literature.

Email: berkay1250@gmail.com

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Mark Algee-Hewitt

Affiliation: Stanford University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Mark Algee-Hewitt is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Stanford University. His work applies computational methods to literature of the long 18th century.

Email: malgeehe@stanford.edu

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Ceren Ordu

Affiliation: Ege University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Ceren Ordu received her Bachelor’s degree from Ege University, Faculty of Letters/Department of American Culture and Literature in 2022. Currently, she is a Master’s student in the same department at Ege University. Her areas of interest include but are not limited to Gothic, Eco-Gothic, Cli-Fi, Poetry, and Popular Culture.

Email: cerenordu0@gmail.com

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Victoria McMahon

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I hold a PhD in Shakespeare Studies specialising in the early modern female body, especially the ageing body. I take a cross-disciplinary approach to my independent research, lately focusing on arctic horror, body horror and the films of David Cronenberg.

Email: vickymcmahon@shaw.ca

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Rune Graulund

Affiliation: University of Southern Denmark

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Rune Graulund is the co-author of Grotesque (2013) and Dark Scenes From Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (2022) as well as a range of articles and chapters on the Gothic and the grotesque on subjects such as “Desert Globalgothic”, “The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth: The Imaginary of the Antarctic as Deserta”, “Posthuman Horror (and Hope)”, “The Zombie Tropocalypse”, “Nanodead: Technologies of Death”, “Restrained Excess: Where Sophistication Meets Excess” and, with Timothy Morton, “The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return”.

Email: graulund@sdu.dk
Website: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/graulund

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