Ben Lomas

Affiliation: University of Sheffield

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Ben Lomas’ research focuses on representations of human edibility in Gothic literature and horror cinema.

Email: blomas2@sheffield.ac.uk

Mace Bielderman

Affiliation: Utrecht University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Virtual Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

RMA Comparative Literary Studies at Utrecht University. Interested in queerness and contemporary cybergothic fiction.

Email: macebielderman@gmail.com

Claire Cunningham

Affiliation: Lancaster University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Claire Cunningham is doing a PhD in creative writing at Lancaster University.

Email: c.reilly3@lancaster.ac.uk

Kerry Benton

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies

I am very interested in gothic culture

Email: yrreknotneb54@gmail.com

Catherine Greenwood

Affiliation: University of Sheffield

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Catherine Greenwood holds a Gothic Studies/Creative Writing PhD from the University of Sheffield. Her articles on Gothic poetry appear in Gramarye Journal and Gothic Natures Journal.

Email: catgee333@gmail.com

Dominique Marrone

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

My research focuses on the interplay between eighteenth-century Gothic and early modern literature in their representations of intersectional subalternities (gender, animality, and the non-human).

Email: dominiquemarrone2@gmail.com

Kaylee Cheyenne Jule Lamb

Affiliation: University of Florida

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Kaylee Lamb is fifth year PhD student whose research centers on the relationality between Black and Indigenous Gothic.

Email: kaylee.lamb@ufl.edu

Zoe Zavrotny

Affiliation: University College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Zoe Zavrotny is a PhD student at University College Dublin completing a thesis on Irish Victorian horror literature as a form of life writing.

Email: zoezavrotny@gmail.com

Anna Maria Ronewicz

Affiliation: University of Szczecin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Games, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Anna Maria Ronewicz is a PhD student at the University of Szczecin, working on a dissertation on queer liminality in weird fiction audio drama.

Email: anna.ronewicz@usz.edu.pl

Christine Bruening

Affiliation: Louisiana State University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts
Regions and Cultures: Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Christine Bruening is a digital artist and researcher exploring representations of women in horror, motherhood, and the aesthetics of violence as a lens for catharsis.

Email: cbruening@lsu.edu
Website: https://christinebruening.squarespace.com/