Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Sharon Bolton has PhD in Criminology and works as an academic in the UK. She has a long time interest in Gothic studies.
Email: sharonb99@gmail.com
Affiliation: Wesleyan University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I am an undergraduate student at Wesleyan University studying Romance Languages and Literatures alongside Philosophy.
Email: asutter@wesleyan.edu
Affiliation: Saint Louis University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
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: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Alexa Broemmer is a PhD candidate studying the portrayal of women and food in horror and horror-adjacent media.
Email: alexa.broemmer@slu.edu
Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 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, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
I specialise in EcoGothic/EcoWeird fiction and the Blue Humanities. I am currently finishing my PhD thesis on Weird Hydropoetics in Modern and Contemporary Fiction.
Email: fredrik.blanc@gmail.com
Affiliation: Linnaeus University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Johan Höglund is professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is the author of The American Climate Emergency Narrative (2024) and The American Imperial Gothic (2016).
Email: johan.hoglund@lnu.se
Affiliation: William & Mary
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
Kim Wheatley is Professor of English at William & Mary, USA. She is the author of Shelley and His Readers (1999) and Romantic Feuds (2013).
Email: kewhea@wm.edu
Affiliation: NOVA University Lisbon
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
PhD Candidate in Modern Literatures and Cultures. Member of the Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. Fields of research include: (Neo)Victorianism, Gothic Literature, Vampire Fiction, Dystopian Studies and Video Game Studies.
Email: jessica.iolanda.bispo@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6952-8477
Affiliation: The Ohio State University at Marion
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Sara L. Crosby is a Professor of English at the Ohio State University at Marion. She has authored two books on poisonous women and has also published essays on ecohorror/ecoGothic in Cambridge’s History of the Gothic and in ISLE. Her current book project investigates the disastrous interplay between extractive interests and American popular culture’s representation of South Louisiana as a place of ecohorror.
Email: crosby.sara@gmail.com
Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Email: matthew.foley@mmu.ac.uk
Affiliation: University of Stirling
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
PhD candidate at University of Stirling focusing on death and violations of the corpse in 20th century American Gothic.
Email: nicolette.williams@gmail.com
