Lex Croucher

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Lex Croucher writes fantasy and rom coms for adults and teenagers, and is the New York Times, Indie & USA Today bestselling author of GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE.

Email: lexcanroar@gmail.com
Website: https://www.lexcroucher.co.uk

Maria Barreto

Affiliation: Emory University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Maria Barreto is an English PhD student at Emory University, specializing in contemporary Latin American Gothic, specifically researching the intersection of memory and identity.

Email: mabarr2@emory.edu

Hannah Nelson

Affiliation: University of Exeter

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Hannah Nelson is currently completing an MA in English literary studies, with interest in the relationship the Gothic has with nationalism, personhood, and themes of isolation.

Email: hannahlnelson62@gmail.com

Darren Borg

Affiliation: Los Angeles Pierce College

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: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black 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

Darren Borg has taught English literature at Los Angeles Pierce College since 2008. He earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate University in 2019. His work focuses on the connections between literary form, subjectivity, and ideology. He is currently working on a book on the uncanny in nineteenth-century fiction.

Email: borgdj@piercecollege.edu

Anna-Maria Grill

Affiliation: University of Regensburg

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a research associate, lecturer, and PhD candidate at the University of Regensburg’s Chair for English Literature and Culture, specialising in the long nineteenth-century.

Email: anna-maria.grill@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
Website: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/anglistik/staff/grill/index.html

Elizabeth Moore

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

Elizabeth Moore is a writer and educator whose work explores Gothic literature, feminist form, and the haunting interplay between bodies, spaces, and narrative voice.

Email: lizmoore34@gmail.com

Patrick Munnelly

Affiliation: Community College of Aurora

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Patrick Munnelly is English and Communication Faculty at the Community College of Aurora.

Email: patrick.munnelly@ccaurora.edu

Felix Nauditt

Affiliation: Bonn University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic

MA English literature, writer, 19th century-present, interested in mental health and psychopathology, Gothic, Modernism.

Email: s5fenaud@uni-bonn.de
Website: https://bsky.app/profile/felixndt.bsky.social

Rob Vanston

Affiliation: University of Brighton

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Rob Vanston is a PhD student whose thesis is about how evil operates within fiction, and what we can learn from the villain’s story. Rob’s PhD encompasses the villains from the Hellraiser and Alien franchises, as well as the Joker, Dr Hannibal Lecter, the Wicked Witch of the West and Pazuzu from The Exorcist. The main aim of the PhD is to try to understand why we gravitate towards such villains, what can we learn from them, and why they keep coming back. Goodness cannot operate with evil.

Email: r.vanston1@uni.brighton.ac.uk

Maile Chapman

Affiliation: University of Nevada

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

Associate Professor of Creative Writing & English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Author of novels The Spoil (Graywolf, 2026) and Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto.

Email: maile.chapman@unlv.edu
Website: https://www.unlv.edu/people/maile-chapman