Harley Mercadal

Affiliation: Middle Tennessee State University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Zombies

Harley Mercadal is a PhD student at Middle Tennessee State University. She is interested in Southern and Appalachian writers as well as how the Gothic informs other genres. She has scholarly work published in The Mildred Haun Review and Scientia et Humanitas, and she has creative work published in The Mockingbird, Collage, and others.

Email: harleymercadal@gmail.com

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Thomas Kullmann

Affiliation: University of Osnabrueck

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Children and YA, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Thomas Kullmann is professor of English literature at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. His research interests include Shakespeare, children’s and young adults’ fiction, and fantasy.

Email: tkullman@uos.de
Website: http://www.ifaa.uni-osnabrueck.de/mitarbeiter/tkullman

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Deborah Morgan

Research Areas:
Gender: Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic

Deborah Morgan is a research consultant, and was a part-time lecturer and tutor with the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She has taught at The University of the West Indies; her major teaching areas included Gender and Psychology and Research in Applied Psychology. Her research interests comprise Gender Socialization, Postmodern Gothic, Liberation Pedagogies in Education, Gender Inequalities and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean, and Women and Politics.

Email: deborah.morgan@mycavehill.uwi.edu

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Prevan Moodley

Affiliation: University of Johannesburg

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Monsters

Dr P Moodley does research on sexual and gender diversity within transdisciplinary contexts (media and film studies; critical health psychology). His method specialism is discourse analysis.

Email: pmoodley@uj.ac.za

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Eric Alejandro Lopez

Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Regions and Cultures: Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am a PhD student who is passionate about Latin American literature and the Gothic.

Email: e.lopez-vazquez@liverpool.ac.uk

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David Kirshbaum

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Life-long Goth. Joined the Goth sub-culture in 1994 in Atlanta, GA, USA, and have also participated across the USA in Washington DC, Newark, New York, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson. Interested in Gothic fashion, interior decoration, ethereal Gothic and industrial music, literature, dark disturbing art, philosophy and psychology, and Goth mixed with yoga and meditation (Kashmir Shaivism).

Email: Dakirshbm@aol.com

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Sierra Pritchard

Affiliation: University of Nevada, Reno

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a Ph.D. student and writing instructor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and am interested in American and Indigenous Gothic studies.

Email: sierrapritchard@unr.edu

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Àlex González Charro

Affiliation: UNED

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Trans Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Zombies

Àlex González Charro has just finished a Master’s Degree in English Literature and Its Social Impact at the UNED. His final dissertation, There Is Nothing More Beautiful than the Death of a Beautiful Young Woman: The Abject in Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales and its Visual Representation, revolved around the representation of the abject in Edgar Allan Poe’s work and its visual representation. He studied English Studies at Universidad de León and he has been working a Secondary Education teacher with a special interest in task-based learning and cooperative work. Besides this, he has also collaborated as an English teacher in the Psychology Degree at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
His main fields of interest are representation of the abject and the abjection in horror literature, the relationship between literature and the arts, especially illustration, and popular culture.
Next academic year, he will start his Ph.D. studying the relationship between the haunted house and the transient subject in North American and Latin American literature.
He has participated in the 7th Seminar of the Master in English Cultural Studies and their Social Impact (2021) and later this year he will be joining XI Coloquio Internacional: Mujer y poéticas de la salud.

Email: agonzalez861@alumno.uned.es

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Zoe Van Cauwenberg

Affiliation: Ghent University/KU Leuven

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

Zoë Van Cauwenberg (she/her) is a romanticist and a historian whose research focuses on women’s writing from the late 18th and early 19th century.

Email: zoevancauwenberg@gmail.com

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Ashley Quinn

Affiliation: Middle Tennessee State University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Ashley Quinn is an English PhD student at Middle Tennessee State University where she studies Gothic and Victorian literature as well as film studies with a particular focus on Gothic/horror film and vampires.

Email: amq2k@mtmail.mtsu.edu

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