Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic
Creatures: Monsters
Email: darcyknight1@gmail.com
Affiliation: Middle Tennessee State University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Rebekah Lawler is an English PhD Candidate at Middle Tennessee State University studying Victorian and children’s literature. She is also interested in the production of novels through the Minerva Press in the late 18th century.
Email: rl4g@mtmail.mtsu.edu
Affiliation: University of Tennessee
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters
Khôra Martel (she/they) is Lecturer of World Religion at the University of Tennessee. They received their doctorates in Religion, Philosophy & Visual Culture and in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago.
Email: khoramartel@utk.edu
Website: https://khoramartel.me/
Affiliation: Langara College
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Jonathan Newell is an instructor at snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College. His work focuses on weird fiction and the intersections between affect, metaphysics, and politics. His first monograph, A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832-1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror, was published in 2020 by the University of Wales Press.
Email: jnewell@langara.ca
Affiliation: Joyce University of Nursing and Health Science
Research Areas:
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Creatures: Zombies
Allison Budaj holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies and is an Assistant Director of General Education at Joyce University of Nursing and Health Science.
Email: allisonbudaj@hotmail.com
Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Julia Larsen is a first year PhD student in Intermediality at the University of Edinburgh. She writes about queer vampires, monstrous women, and vampiric white supremacy.
Email: s2343649@ed.ac.uk
Website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/julia-larsen
Affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires
Kamalini Govender is a lecturer in English Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Children’s Gothic with a focus on its relevance to South African literature.
Email: kamalini.govender@gmail.com
Affiliation: Memorial University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
Dr. Rachel Jekanowski is an interdisciplinary scholar working between film and media studies and the energy humanities. Rachel works as an Assistant Professor of English at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus. She is Reviews Editor for Journal of Environmental Media and a Co-Editor of The Goose: Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
Email: rjekanowski@mun.ca
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
West Ambrose is an artist and a writer.
Email: westofcanon@gmail.com
Website: https://westofcanon.com/
Affiliation: Texas State University
Research Areas:
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Asian Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Expatriate Australian in San Marcos, TX, a spring-fed idyll of mermaids and unicycles; sporadic author of short horror fiction.
Email: graeme@txstate.edu
