Emily Barber

Affiliation: University of Notre Dame

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts

I am a PhD student at the University of Notre Dame studying Romantic and Victorian literature, with particular interests in the Gothic, religion, and ecocriticism.

Email: ebarber@nd.edu
Website: https://english.nd.edu/people/graduate-students/emily-barber

Mike Thorn

Affiliation: University of New Brunswick

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Mike Thorn is the author of Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and Peel Back and See.
He is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the Department of English (Creative Writing) at the University of New Brunswick.

Email: mike.thorn@unb.ca
Website: https://mikethornwrites.com

Madelyn Walsh

Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Caribbean Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

I am a fourth-year PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool. My research explores how exaqua is deployed in contemporary creative responses to the Zong Massacre.

Email: madelyn.walsh@liverpool.ac.uk

Yoonjae Shin

Affiliation: University of Missouri

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic

Yoonjae Shin is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Email: ys8cn@missouri.edu

Eric Gary Anderson

Affiliation: George Mason University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Eric Gary Anderson is associate professor of English at George Mason University. He is co-editor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (LSU, 2015) and is currently churning new book projects on the Indigenous Undead and on slasher ecologies.

Email: eandersd@gmu.edu
Website: https://english.gmu.edu/people/eandersd

Terri M Carney

Affiliation: Butler University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts

Terri M Carney is a Professor of Spanish. She studies the woman detective, Gothic elements, and the interconnectedness of capitalist greed, environmental degradation, and toxic masculinity in contemporary crime fiction.

Email: terri.carney@gmail.com

Jonahs Kneitly

Affiliation: Texas A&M University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, American Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

My current interest is the EcoGothic in the long 20th-century with a focus on transnational representations in film and literature.

Email: kneitlyjwriter@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-5865-3491

Laura Sedgwick

Affiliation: University of Stirling

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

PhD in Haunted House Cinema at Stirling. Goth. Former ghost hunter. Co-author of Gothic Dissections. Host of Fabulous Folklore Podcast.

Email: lj.sedgwick@gmail.com

John Whatley

Affiliation: Simon Fraser University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

John Whatley specializes in 18th century precedents to Romanticism and has taught courses on crime & literature, the literary essay, poetry, the gothic novel, and the relation between the social sciences and literary theory.

Email: whatley@sfu.ca

Chera Kee

Affiliation: Wayne State University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Zombies

Chera Kee is an Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies in the English Department at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, USA. Her previous work has focused on the zombie in American pop culture. Currently, she is researching ghost-hunting technologies.

Email: ckee@wayne.edu
Website: https://cheradkee.wordpress.com/