Suleyman Bolukbas

Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Suleyman Bolukbas is a second year dual-degree PhD student in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Penn State University. He is especially interested in queer readings of the gothic as an international and global phenomenon. In 2022, he became the assistant editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color.

Email: sfb5885@psu.edu

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Asma Chahed

Affiliation: University of Sousse

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Asma Chahed is a holder of a PhD in Southern American literature. Her major interests include southern Gothic, psychology, race, racism, identity issues and marginalised people.

Email: asma.chahed87@gmail.com

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Ting-fu Chen

Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Ting-fu Chen is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His fields of research include literary theory, intellectual history, long nineteenth-century British literature, and mediaeval Chinese literature, with a special attention paid to transnational Gothic, fiction(ality) and history, and the social and cultural significance of notions such as the strange, the marvellous and the extraordinary.

Email: tingfuchen@utexas.edu

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Piyush Kumar

Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Piyush Kumar is a Goth enthusiast with a desire to traverse unexplored regions.

Email: ypiyush135@gmail.com

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Francesca Crisante

Affiliation: University of Chieti

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic

Francesca Crisante is a lecturer in English literature. Her publication includes a monograph on Virginia Woolf and numerous essays on the Bloomsbury Group. She is a member of the Center for Victorian Studies (University of Chieti) and sits on the advisory board of the series CriLet (Croce, Rome).

Email: fcrisante@unime.it

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Charlotte Smith

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Tourism and Travel

Gothicist, librarian, writer, student, critic.

Email: cmsmith831@gmail.com

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Victor LaValle

Affiliation: Columbia University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction and three comic books. He teaches at Columbia University.

Email: greaseboat@gmail.com
Website: http://www.victorlavalle.com

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Paromita Patranobish

Affiliation: Mount Carmel College

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Creole Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Dr. Paromita Patranobish’s work focuses on the intellectual history of the body in modernity, and its contemporary iterations in literature and visual arts in relation to globalisation and multispecies relations. She is Assistant Professor of English, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.

Email: paromita.patranobish1@gmail.com

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Craig Laurance Gidney

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Craig Laurance Gidney (he/him/his) is the author of Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories; Skin Deep Magic: Stories; Bereft (a YA novella); and A Spectral Hue (a novel). He has been a Lambda Literary Finalist three times, was a Carl Brandon Parallax Award Finalist, and won the inaugural Joseph S Pulver Sr Award for Weird Fiction. The Nectar of Nightmares is his most recent collection. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Email: clgidney@gmail.com
Website: http://craiglaurancegidney.com

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Michela Marroni

Affiliation: University of Tuscia

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Michela Marroni is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). She has published numerous articles on Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, etc. She sits on the editorial board of Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, Merope and Traduttologia and is a member of the Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (Chieti, Italy). Her latest publication is Eleanor Marx: traduttrice vittoriana e militante ribelle (Pisa, 2021).

Email: m.marroni@unitus.it

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