Affiliation: The University of Arizona
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
M’Balia Thomas is an Associate Professor of English Applied Linguistics in the Department of English at The University of Arizona.
Email: mbthomas@arizona.edu
Affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Rhi Johnson explores the pain and pleasure of haunted shores and crumbling ruins of Spain and Latin America from Indiana University Bloomington.
Email: rhirjohn@iu.edu
Website: https://spanport.indiana.edu/about/faculty/johnson-rhi.html
Affiliation: University of Glasgow
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires
Sonika Jaiganesh is currently researching the ontology of disease in Victorian gothic monster fiction.
Email: sonikajaiganesh1@gmail.com
Affiliation: University College London
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Joana Jacob Ramalho is a lecturer at University College London, specialising in gothic film with research focusing on memory, displacement, music, and failure.
Email: joana.ramalho@ucl.ac.uk
Affiliation: Penn State Harrisburg
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Hayley Billet is an American Studies PhD candidate at Penn State Harrisburg. Her areas of interest include gothic literature, the Ecogothic, and dark tourism.
Email: billeth123@gmail.com
Affiliation: Lancaster University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires
Ellie Shawcross is a PhD student at Lancaster University, researching her thesis ‘(Un)Natural Desires: Wildness and Abject Desire in the Contemporary Queer Horrorsphere’.
Email: e.shawcross1@lancaster.ac.uk
Affiliation: Lebanese University
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, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Teresa Rahi is an MA student in English Literature at the Lebanese University, Lebanon whose research sits at the intersection of Gothic literature, Posthumanism, and artificial intelligence.
Email: rahiteresa@hotmail.com
Affiliation: University of Bristol
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Greta Dunn is interested in EcoGothic, arboreal gothic, theological gothic, queer gothic and particularly gothic girlfriends.
Email: gd13769@bristol.ac.uk
Affiliation: Northumbria University
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
Lucy Swift is a first year PhD student researching liminality and hauntology in contemporary media.
Email: lucy.c.swift@northumbria.ac.uk
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Catherine Cook holds a Masters in Gothic literature.
Email: catherinescook71@gmail.com