Claudia Schaefer

Affiliation: University of Rochester

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am a professor at the University of Rochester. I have published on the Gothic in Spain and Spanish America and am working on a collaborative project on neo-Gothic women writers in Argentina, Mexico, and Bolivia.

Email: claudia.schaefer@rochester.edu

Taylor Greene

Affiliation: Northern Michigan University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Taylor Greene is a MA candidate in Literature at Northern Michigan University. Current interests and research lie in Edgar Allan Poe studies, Gothic fiction, and Japanese literature.

Email: tgreene@nmu.edu

Chak Wan Ying

Affiliation: University of Hong Kong

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

I am a first-year MPhil student in the Comparative Literature department at the University of Hong Kong.

Email: jenchak@connect.hku.hk

Lexie Angelo

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Research Areas:
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic

Lexie Angelo is a PhD researcher in creative writing at the University of Edinburgh where she is studying postcolonial settings in Canadian and Scottish crime fiction. Her work has appeared in Gutter Magazine, Culinaire Magazine, and Neon Books. She is a recipient of the Carlyle Norman Scholarship for Emerging Literary Artists Endowment, and was awarded a residency at The Banff Centre. She is a member of the Writer’s Union of Canada, Society of Young Publishers, and Society of Authors. She teaches creative writing at the University of Calgary and owns Radical Bookshop and Press.

Email: s1792104@ed.ac.uk
Website: https://www.lexieangelo.com/

Emily Elizabeth Winnie Redknap

Affiliation: Macquarie University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Student at Macquarie University. Currently studying a PhD in English Literature, looking at contemporary representations of motherhood in Gothic North American literature.

Email: emily.redknap@hdr.mq.edu.au

Amy LeBlanc

Affiliation: University of Calgary

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies

Amy LeBlanc is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary studying the intersections of Gothic literature and chronic illness in haunted house narratives.

Email: ajleblan@ucalgary.ca

Tatiana Fajardo

Affiliation: University of the Basque Country

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

I am a PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country. I study Patrick McGrath’s novels and his concepts of transgression, decay and madness.

Email: tatianafajardo@gmx.es

Orla Donnelly

Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a final year PhD candidate with the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. My research focuses on ‘dark’ tourism and Egyptian-ised Gothic popular fictions of the 1890s.

Email: ordonnel@tcd.ie

Stephanie Dunne

Affiliation: University of Portsmouth

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters

I am a postgraduate student doing my second MA in Victorian Gothic at the University of Portsmouth.

Email: smbryant@hotmail.co.uk

Charles Archer

Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, Abington College

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Charles Archer is Associate Teaching Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Abington College.

Email: cta10@psu.edu