Mark Algee-Hewitt

Affiliation: Stanford University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Mark Algee-Hewitt is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities at Stanford University. His work applies computational methods to literature of the long 18th century.

Email: malgeehe@stanford.edu

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Ceren Ordu

Affiliation: Ege University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Ceren Ordu received her Bachelor’s degree from Ege University, Faculty of Letters/Department of American Culture and Literature in 2022. Currently, she is a Master’s student in the same department at Ege University. Her areas of interest include but are not limited to Gothic, Eco-Gothic, Cli-Fi, Poetry, and Popular Culture.

Email: cerenordu0@gmail.com

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Victoria McMahon

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, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I hold a PhD in Shakespeare Studies specialising in the early modern female body, especially the ageing body. I take a cross-disciplinary approach to my independent research, lately focusing on arctic horror, body horror and the films of David Cronenberg.

Email: vickymcmahon@shaw.ca

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Rune Graulund

Affiliation: University of Southern Denmark

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Rune Graulund is the co-author of Grotesque (2013) and Dark Scenes From Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (2022) as well as a range of articles and chapters on the Gothic and the grotesque on subjects such as “Desert Globalgothic”, “The Dark, Dead Corners of the Earth: The Imaginary of the Antarctic as Deserta”, “Posthuman Horror (and Hope)”, “The Zombie Tropocalypse”, “Nanodead: Technologies of Death”, “Restrained Excess: Where Sophistication Meets Excess” and, with Timothy Morton, “The Dark Currents of Energy in Twin Peaks: The Return”.

Email: graulund@sdu.dk
Website: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/graulund

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Sharon Bolton

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic

Sharon Bolton has PhD in Criminology and works as an academic in the UK. She has a long time interest in Gothic studies.

Email: sharonb99@gmail.com

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Ava Feliz Sutter

Affiliation: Wesleyan University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am an undergraduate student at Wesleyan University studying Romance Languages and Literatures alongside Philosophy.

Email: asutter@wesleyan.edu

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Alexa Broemmer

Affiliation: Saint Louis University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Alexa Broemmer is a PhD candidate studying the portrayal of women and food in horror and horror-adjacent media.

Email: alexa.broemmer@slu.edu

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Fredrik Blanc

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

I specialise in EcoGothic/EcoWeird fiction and the Blue Humanities. I am currently finishing my PhD thesis on Weird Hydropoetics in Modern and Contemporary Fiction.

Email: fredrik.blanc@gmail.com

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Johan Höglund

Affiliation: Linnaeus University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Johan Höglund is professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is the author of The American Climate Emergency Narrative (2024) and The American Imperial Gothic (2016).

Email: johan.hoglund@lnu.se

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