Dr. Heidi Backes is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Missouri State University with a research focus on the neo-Gothic movement in Spain.

Bookseller and student interested in racial horror and the Gothic.

I am a PhD student, particularly interested in Queer Gothic and the Gothic in Romantic and Victorian fiction.

I am an English Graduate student at the University of Lausanne, currently on exchange at Waseda University. My master’s thesis focuses on Japanese and American short story cycles (Yoko Ogawa, Kyotaro Nishimura, Hideo Okuda, Karen Tei Yamashita), with a focus on crime and horror fiction.

Tembi Charles is a 6th-year dual title PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies. Her research and teaching interests include the African Diaspora, Global Anglophone Literatures, Gender and Sexuality, African Literature, Criticism and Culture. Her dissertation examines textual representations of contemporary forced migration of black Zimbabweans to South Africa.

Mark Deggan is an Senior Lecturer in World Literature, Vancouver, Canada. He is an ecocritic with interest in performance studies, primarily researching the ecological poetics of “colonial” modernism.

I am interested in popular and indigenous Gothic film and have published a monograph, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts, and co-edited a book with Aaron Rosen, Religion and Sight. I explore psychological and anthropological approaches to many Gothic tropes, suggesting ways in which contemporary animism can illuminate aspects of consciousness and the body in film and literary contexts.

Dr Giulia Champion is a Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship) at the University of Southampton.

Her project investigates different communities’ engagement with and representations of the seabed through culture, science communication and policy. It interrogates how these may influence marine governance and the concept of Ocean Justice, with a particular focus on “in/tangible” underwater cultural heritage and the current development of the mining code by the International Seabed Authority.

In 2022, she was a Green Transition Fellow at the Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger. She volunteers for the International Commission of the History of Oceanography and is a co-convenor for the Haunted Shores Network and the Reading Decoloniality Group and a collaborator on the Ecological Reparation Project. Her work has been published in journals including Gothic Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Green Letter, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and The Journal of Energy History.

I am a Psychology student at The Ohio State University with minors in English and Legal Foundations of Society.

Ernest Yuen is an MPhil student. His research interests include poetry and Gothic fiction in Romanticism.