Lexie Angelo

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Research Areas:
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic

Lexie Angelo is a PhD researcher in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh where she is studying postcolonial settings in Canadian and Scottish crime fiction. Her work has appeared in Gutter Magazine, Culinaire Magazine, and Neon Books. She is a recipient of the Carlyle Norman Scholarship for Emerging Literary Artists Endowment, and was awarded a residency at The Banff Centre. She is a member of the Writer’s Union of Canada, Society of Young Publishers, and Society of Authors. She teaches creative writing at the University of Calgary and owns Radical Bookshop and Press.

Email: s1792104@ed.ac.uk
Website: https://www.lexieangelo.com/

Emily Elizabeth Winnie Redknap

Affiliation: Macquarie University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Student at Macquarie University. Currently studying a PhD in English Literature, looking at contemporary representations of motherhood in Gothic North American literature.

Email: emily.redknap@hdr.mq.edu.au

Amy LeBlanc

Affiliation: University of Calgary

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies

Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary studying the intersections of Gothic literature and chronic illness in haunted house narratives.

Email: ajleblan@ucalgary.ca

Tatiana Fajardo

Affiliation: University of the Basque Country

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

I am a PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country. I study Patrick McGrath’s novels and his concepts of transgression, decay and madness.

Email: tatianafajardo@gmx.es

Orla Donnelly

Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a final year PhD candidate with the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. My research focuses on ‘dark’ tourism and Egyptian-ised Gothic popular fictions of the 1890s.

Email: ordonnel@tcd.ie

Stephanie Dunne

Affiliation: University of Portsmouth

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters

I am a postgraduate student doing my second MA in Victorian Gothic at the University of Portsmouth.

Email: smbryant@hotmail.co.uk

Charles Archer

Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, Abington College

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Charles Archer is Associate Teaching Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Abington College.

Email: cta10@psu.edu

Ashley Massey

Affiliation: University of North Alabama

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Southern American Gothic

Ashley Massey holds a MA in Literature with focuses on Southern Gothic literature and Critical Prison Studies. She currently teaches in jails and prisons, including through the University of North Alabama’s Restorative Justice Lab. She recently released a gothic, farm-themed poetry book. She is currently focused on projects pertaining to Southern Gothic writers William Gay and Flannery O’Connor.

Email: amassey@una.edu

Jenny Naish

Affiliation: University of Sussex

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 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: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Jenny Naish is a PhD student at the University of Sussex, studying female quixotism and nostalgic otherlands.

Email: jn291@sussex.ac.uk

Sam Le Butt

Affiliation: University of Bristol

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Sam Le Butt is a PhD researcher in eco-monstrosity at the University of Bristol, using feminist and decolonial methodologies to ask how monsters narrate ecological crisis in contemporary literature. She is the author of Curious Woman and other Creatures (2022).

Email: sam.lebutt@bristol.ac.uk