Meltem Vardal Ozkutlu

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, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Meltem Vardal Ozkutlu holds a PhD in English Literature, researching women’s Gothic fiction, spatiality, female subjectivity, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary representations of gender, identity, power.

Email: meltemvardal@hotmail.com
Website: https://avesis.ankara.edu.tr/mvardal

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Henriikka Koivisto

Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Research Areas:
Period: 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, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

Henriikka Koivisto is a PhD candidate and instructor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Email: hhkoivisto@uncg.edu

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Maria-Alexandra-Olivia David

Affiliation: West University of Timișoara

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Maria David is a Ph.D. student at the West University of Timișoara, Romania. Her research focuses on the representation of Count Dracula as a sympathetic figure in popular fiction, cinema, and television.

Email: maria.david01@e-uvt.ro

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Shu-Han Yang

Affiliation: National Taiwan University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, English Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Shu-Han Yang’s research traces the uncanny across Victorian fiction and contemporary film, delineating cultural haunting through ethics of mourning and aesthetics of memory.

Email: elsieshyang@gmail.com
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2310-6654

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Anne Kennedy

Affiliation: American Public University

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, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry

Anne Kennedy has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University and teaches film and literature, including Gothic literature.

Email: anne.amk2us@gmail.com

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Gary Emmins

Affiliation: Bucks New University

Research Areas:
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Arts, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, Irish Gothic

Gary Emmins is a senior lecturer at Bucks New University with research interests including music video, experimental film, folk horror, and goth subculture.

Email: gary.emmins@bnu.ac.uk

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Ilse Bussing Lopez

Affiliation: University of Costa Rica

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a proud mom of two humans and three doggies, one of which resembles a bat. I have been drawn to the dark since early childhood, when I used to read Stephen King novels and worry my parents… a lot. As a Gothic academic I am obsessed with the nineteenth century, with aesthetics, spatial analysis. My latest research has to do with Pagan/ritualistic Gothic in Midnight Mass, Hereditary and Midsommar, as well as with Botanical Gothic. I am co-chairing the III Congreso Internacional en Literatura y Estudios Góticos, to be held this December at the University of Costa Rica.

Email: ilsebussing@gmail.com

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Mitch Goodwin

Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Zombies

Mitch Goodwin is a Melbourne based media artist, curator and an academic, with research interests including emergent media ecologies, cultures of automation and digital aesthetics, currently writing a book, Digital Gothic.

Email: mitch.goodwin@unimelb.edu.au
Website: http://mitch.art

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Jacqueline Kolditz

Affiliation: University of Vechta

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Jacqueline Kolditz is a Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of English at the University of Vechta.

Email: jacqueline.kolditz@uni-vechta.de

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Coral Silver

Affiliation: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic

Coral Silver is a David W. and Mary S. Benfer Curatorial Research Fellow and scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art history.

Email: coral.silver@ringling.org

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