Mareike Spychala

Affiliation: University of Bamberg

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Mareike Spychala is a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Bamberg’s American Studies section. Her current research focuses on transatlantic Gothic poetry by 19th-century female poets.

Email: mareike.spychala@uni-bamberg.de
Website: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/american-studies/team/dr-mareike-spychala

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Linda Willem

Affiliation: Butler University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair of Spanish. Specialization in the 19th-century literature and contemporary film/television of Spain. Six books and over 40 articles published.

Email: lwillem@butler.edu

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Agnethe Bennedsgaard

Affiliation: Aarhus University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Asian Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

I am a Ph.D. fellow at Aarhus University, School of Communication and Culture, Department of Comparative Literature, and investigate how a neogothic genrehybrid is forming across contemporary Latin American and East Asian literature, linking intimacy and planetarity.

Email: agb@cc.au.dk
Website: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/agb%40cc.au.dk

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María Belén Caparrós

Affiliation: Universidad de San Andrés

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

María Belén Caparrós is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies. She has a degree in Cinematography from Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires and a Master on Cultural Management from Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires.

She has been researching contemporary Latin American horror and fantasy literature and film from a gender perspective, focusing on its relations with the feminist movements and the struggles of sexual minorities of the 21st century in Argentina and other countries in the region. Her Ph.D. dissertation will examine how these fictions can function as discursive forces with the power to put in crisis sexual binary systems and dismantle gender violence.

Belén is also a Multimedia Designer and an Assistant Professor of Modern and Comparative Literature in Universidad del San Andrés. She has previously worked as a producer of independent audiovisual projects and has been involved in several cultural initiatives, such as the Lumiton Film Museum.

Her publications include “Intrusas que vuelven y baldíos fantásticos: reescrituras monstruosas de femicidios” on Ex Libris (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2023) and “Voces tontas, montañas que respiran y gorgonas travestis: usos políticos del género de terror en Muere monstruo muere (2019) de Alejandro Fadel” on En la otra isla (Instituto de Artes del Espectáculo de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2023).

Email: mcaparros@udesa.edu.ar

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Cai Peishan

Affiliation: Sichuan University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Cai Peishan is a PhD student at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University (Chengdu 610064, China), specialising in modern and post-modern English and American literature. Her doctoral research focuses on gothic media and space in British Gothic Post-modernist novels.

Email: cpshan97@qq.com

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Amanda Southall

Affiliation: Weber State University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole 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

Amanda Southall is a masters student and adjunct professor in English at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, USA specializing in New Media Narratology, Econarratology, and ecoGothic literatures.

Email: amandacsouthall@gmail.com

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Quen Took

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Children and YA, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Quen Took is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, specialising in the Transgender Gothic.

Email: quentook@gmail.com

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Mark Harrison

Affiliation: Indiana University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, 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: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters

I have a long-term interest in the abject in general and the uncanny more specifically. I teach a course on the Weird Tale.

Email: marharri@iu.edu

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Léon Isabelle

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV

Léon Isabelle is a Masters graduate in history specialized in the instrumentalisation of school shootings and interested in the representation of gothic subculture in popular culture and media.

Email: leonisabelle@videotron.ca

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Ella Jeffery

Affiliation: Griffith University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals

Dr Ella Jeffery is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Griffith University. She is interested in representations of uncanny, unstable and insecure dwelling in twenty-first-century literature.

Email: e.jeffery@griffith.edu.au
Website: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/39301-ella-jeffery

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