Scarlette-Electra LeBlanc

Affiliation: University of Hull

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Scarlette-Electra is a PhD candidate investigating the literary/cultural legacies of Holy wells and sacred springs. Her research interests include c19th folklore collections and contemporary ritual.

Email: secwleblanc@outlook.com

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Sarah Marx

Affiliation: Saarland University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Black Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Sarah Marx is an English and history student and horror writer and enthusiast.

Email: sarah.marx00@yahoo.com

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Maria Vara

Affiliation: Athens School of Fine Arts

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, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Maria Vara teaches courses on Gothic literature, art and culture at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts. She holds an MA from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and a PhD ̶ funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation ̶ from the School of English, Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece).

Email: mvara@asfa.gr
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5451-6411

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Louise Turner

Affiliation: University of Southern Queensland

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

A PhD candidate with a love of all things Gothic, supernatural and spooky, I am obsessed with Dark Academia, Nordic Noir and Folk Horror.

Email: louise668@bigpond.com

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Radosław Rygalik

Affiliation: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Radosław Rygalik studied Gothic literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. His interest in the Gothic and horror started in my childhood and is ongoing.

Email: rygalikradek@gmail.com

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Lakeisha Barrington

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Canadian scholar currently working on a Master’s thesis on 21st-Century Black Gothic horror through a psychoanalytical lens.

Email: lakeisha.barrington@gmail.com

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Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen

Affiliation: UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Arctic Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Monsters

Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen is a postdoctoral researcher at UiT The Arctic University of Norway whose PhD was on the intersection of Gothic imagery and tropes in Scandinavian illness narratives.

Email: paula.mikalsen@uit.no

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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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