Persephone Roy

Affiliation: University of Glasgow

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, specialising in the Polar Gothic and Victorian polar exploration narratives. Sir James Clark Ross #1 fan.

Email: roy.persephone@gmail.com

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Michael Weldon Lewis

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I am a fan of Bella Morte and Valentina Wolf. I like Lovecraft stories.

Email: mlewis91@yahoo.com

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Preston Taylor Stone

Affiliation: Brandeis University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Preston Taylor Stone (he/they) is a queer-crip scholar of queer studies and American literary and cultural studies. His current work concerns queer Indigenous horror.

Email: ptstone@icloud.com
Website: https://prestontaylorstone.com

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Paola Rochacr

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, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Black Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

Mythic chiaroscuro persona with a special connection with shadows and their secrets beneath the surface.

Email: paolarc.design@gmail.com

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Rachael E Murray

Affiliation: University of Glasgow

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Rachael E Murray is a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, researching watery Gothic in 18th/19th-century women’s writing.

Email: 2244038m@student.gla.ac.uk

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Inés Ordiz

Affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Inés Ordiz is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid. Her research focuses on gender in 21st-century Gothic literature of the Americas.

Email: ines.ordiz@flog.uned.es
Website: https://www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/filologia/ines-ordiz-alonso-collada.html

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Hannah Winspear-Schillings

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

PhD candidate. Research interests include fan studies, the Victorian Gothic, critical autism studies, and nineteenth-century psychiatry.

Email: hannah.ws98@gmail.com

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Cooper King

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Cooper King is a PhD student working on their thesis examining the TransGothic. He is focusing on contemporary Gothic iterations, but also spends time in the 19th century.

Email: s2126207@ed.ac.uk

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Lucy Elizabeth Allan

Affiliation: University of Glasgow

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

I am a researcher and published author, specialising in man-made bodies and the queer unnatural. I have a doctorate in creative writing from Glasgow University.

Email: lucyeallan1@gmail.com

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Angie Gomez-Garcia

Affiliation: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Angie Gomez-Garcia is a PhD candidate at the University of Santiago de Compostela, focusing on traditional and emotional vampires in TV and cinema through a gender perspective.

Email: gomezgaa29@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2057-2076

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