Ashley Massey

Affiliation: University of North Alabama

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Southern American Gothic

Ashley Massey holds a MA in Literature with focuses on Southern Gothic literature and Critical Prison Studies. She currently teaches in jails and prisons, including through the University of North Alabama’s Restorative Justice Lab. She recently released a gothic, farm-themed poetry book. She is currently focused on projects pertaining to Southern Gothic writers William Gay and Flannery O’Connor.

Email: amassey@una.edu

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Jenny Naish

Affiliation: University of Sussex

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century 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: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Jenny Naish is a PhD student at the University of Sussex, studying female quixotism and nostalgic otherlands.

Email: jn291@sussex.ac.uk

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Sam Le Butt

Affiliation: University of Bristol

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: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Sam Le Butt is a PhD researcher in eco-monstrosity at the University of Bristol, using feminist and decolonial methodologies to ask how monsters narrate ecological crisis in contemporary literature. She is the author of Curious Woman and other Creatures (2022).

Email: sam.lebutt@bristol.ac.uk

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Lucy Cogan

Affiliation: University College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Irish Gothic

Lucy Cogan is Assistant Professor of Literature and Medical Humanities at University College Dublin and Principal Investigator of the “Drinking Cultures” Wellcome Trust Project.

Email: lucy.cogan2@ucd.ie

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Madison Lacy

Affiliation: Rice University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Maddie Lacy is a PhD student in the English Department at Rice University. Her research interests include Gothic literature post-1945, feminist theory, and poststructuralism.

Email: ml168@rice.edu
Website: https://profiles.rice.edu/student/madison-lacy

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Ellen McGeoch

Affiliation: University of Sydney

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Ellen is a research affiliate and recent PhD graduate of the University of Sydney. Her research interests coalesce around gender, literature, and popular culture, with a particular interest in contemporary gothic fictions, monstrosity, and representations of adolescence and girlhood.

Email: ellen.mcgeoch@gmail.com

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Miranda Macfarlane

Affiliation: University of Notre Dame

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance

Miranda Macfarlane is an English PhD student at Notre Dame. She specializes in British Romantic literature and Disability Studies.

Email: mmacfarl@nd.edu

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C.H. Newell

Affiliation: Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

C.H. Newell is a queer academic, author, film critic, and screenwriter from Newfoundland.

Email: u39cjhn@mun.ca
Website: https://fathersonholygore.com

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Helena Habibi

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
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

My research and publications focus on intersections of animal studies, feminist vegetarian theory, and Gothic and horror fiction and film.

Email: habibihelena@hotmail.co.uk

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Bryony Taylor

Affiliation: University of Nottingham

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals

Bryony Taylor is a creative writing PhD student studying at the University of Nottingham and funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.

Email: bryony1t@hotmail.co.uk

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