Affiliation: Boise State University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
I am a professor of literature at Boise State University. My research interests include early American Gothic and book history in the early decades of the US.
Email: thomashillard@boisestate.edu
Affiliation: Morgan State University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Megan DeVirgilis is Associate Professor of Spanish, editor of The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature (University of Wales Press, 2024) and co-editor of Women’s Agency and the Gothic (Manchester University Press, forthcoming).
Email: megan.devirgilis@morgan.edu
Website: https://www.morgan.edu/world-languages-and-international-studies/faculty-and-staff/megan-devirgilis
Affiliation: Lancaster University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Monsters
Chloe Campbell is a PhD student at Lancaster University researching witch-wives and domestic, suburban witches in literature and film.
Email: Chloe Campbell
Website: https://readingwitches.wordpress.com
Affiliation: University of Hull
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I am completing a PhD on the figure of the ‘living’ doll in contemporary horror and increasingly interested in the intersections between technology and Gothic Studies.
Email: sandiemills89@gmail.com
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin
Research Areas:
Period: 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
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
My research focuses on domesticity and belief in American gothic and supernatural fiction and popular culture. Current project: Shirley Jackson: A Literary Life (Palgrave 2025-26).
Email: downeyd@tcd.ie
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Zombies
Shirley Jackson scholar, with interests in Gothic Science Fiction, all eras of American Gothic, and infection/contagion, particularly in zombie narratives.
Email: deitnerj@tcd.ie
Website: https://shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com
Affiliation: Flinders University
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
I am a Senior Lecturer in English interested in the British long eighteenth century, including graveyard poetry, literary treatments of death and suicide, and vampires.
Email: eric.parisot@flinders.edu.au
Affiliation: University of California, San Diego
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
A medievalist by training, I research legends and literary monsters. My new book is Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew (U Michigan).
Email: llampert@ucsd.edu
Website: https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/llampertweissig.html
Affiliation: Macquarie University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Dr Kirstin Mills is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, specialising in long-nineteenth-century Gothic and supernatural literature and its twenty-first-century digital media adaptations.
Email: kirstin.mills@mq.edu.au
Website: http://www.kirstinmills.com/
Affiliation: Rutgers University-Camden
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic
Ellen Ledoux is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers-Camden. Her book Social Reform in Gothic Writing was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2013).
Email: eledoux@rutgers.edu
Website: https://ellen.ledoux.us/
