Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Cooper King is a PhD student working on their thesis examining the TransGothic. He is focusing on contemporary Gothic iterations, but also spends time in the 19th century.
Email: s2126207@ed.ac.uk
Affiliation: University of Glasgow
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
I am a researcher and published author, specialising in man-made bodies and the queer unnatural. I have a doctorate in creative writing from Glasgow University.
Email: lucyeallan1@gmail.com
Affiliation: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic
Creatures: Vampires
Angie Gomez-Garcia is a PhD candidate at the University of Santiago de Compostela, focusing on traditional and emotional vampires in TV and cinema through a gender perspective.
Email: gomezgaa29@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2057-2076
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Brittney Norton analyses Old English manuscripts through the lens of Gothic and modern-day horror.
Email: brittneynorton615@gmail.com
Affiliation: King Abdulaziz University
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
Dr. Nesreen Al-Harby is an Associate Professor of English Literature and cultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia.
Email: naalharby@kau.edu.sa
Affiliation: University of New Orleans
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires
Chronically ill and disabled writer, grad student, and Pushcart-nominated poet.
Email: erins2001@gmail.com
Affiliation: University of Szczecin
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: African Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Barbara Braid is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Szczecin, specialising in neo-Victorianism, biofiction, adaptation and popular literature and culture.
Email: barbara.braid@usz.edu.pl
Affiliation: olgamek787@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
I got a degree in the Education of Art from the Jan Dlugosz University in Częstochowa (2010) and also in Instrumental Studies (the piano class) from the same university. In 2013, I completed a Music Therapy programme at the Academy of Music in Wrocław. I also completed a doctoral interdisciplinary programme in Humanities at the University of Warsaw (2019). In 2022, I completed postgraduate studies specializing in the History of Music and Contemporary Musical Culture at the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Interested in the transcendent quality of Gothic architecture.
Email: mncmfarm21@gmail.com
Affiliation: Maynooth University
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: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Shauna Louise Caffrey is a PhD student of musicology, researching witchcraft, music and magic on the seventeenth-century operatic stage.