Lucy Cogan

Affiliation: University College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Irish Gothic

Lucy Cogan is Assistant Professor of Literature and Medical Humanities at University College Dublin and Principal Investigator of the “Drinking Cultures” Wellcome Trust Project.

Email: lucy.cogan2@ucd.ie

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Madison Lacy

Affiliation: Rice University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Maddie Lacy is a PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. Her research interests include Gothic literature post-1945, feminist theory, and poststructuralism.

Email: ml168@rice.edu
Website: https://profiles.rice.edu/student/madison-lacy

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Ellen McGeoch

Affiliation: University of Sydney

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Ellen is a research affiliate and recent PhD graduate of the University of Sydney. Her research interests coalesce around gender, literature, and popular culture, with a particular interest in contemporary gothic fictions, monstrosity, and representations of adolescence and girlhood.

Email: ellen.mcgeoch@gmail.com

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Miranda Macfarlane

Affiliation: University of Notre Dame

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance

Miranda Macfarlane is an English PhD student at Notre Dame. She specializes in British Romantic literature and Disability Studies.

Email: mmacfarl@nd.edu

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C.H. Newell

Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

C.H. Newell is a queer academic, author, film critic, and screenwriter from Newfoundland.

Email: u39cjhn@mun.ca
Website: https://fathersonholygore.com

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Helena Habibi

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

My research and publications focus on intersections of animal studies, feminist vegetarian theory, and Gothic and horror fiction and film.

Email: habibihelena@hotmail.co.uk

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Bryony Taylor

Affiliation: University of Nottingham

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals

Bryony Taylor is a creative writing PhD student studying at the University of Nottingham and funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.

Email: bryony1t@hotmail.co.uk

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Caitlyn Dubé

Affiliation: University of Alberta

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Caitlyn Dubé is an illustrator, writer, and second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, with a B.E. and M.E. from Western University. She is currently working on a SSHRC-funded dissertation project focusing on trauma studies, child-centered pedagogy, Derridean spectres, contemporary children’s literature and the Victorian Gothic.

Email: cndube1@ualberta.ca

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McKenna James Boeckner

Affiliation: University of New Brunswick

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Zombies

I am a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of New Brunswick (territory of the Wolastoqiyik people) with a specialization in long eighteenth-century literature with an anticipated defense in 2024.

Email: mckenna.james@unb.ca
Website: https://www.memoirsofasodomite.com

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Lauryn E. Collins

Affiliation: Independent

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Lauryn E. Collins is an independent scholar based in Halifax. She specializes in theories of identity and being in 19th-century literature and beyond.

Email: lauryn.e.collins@gmail.com

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