Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
I am a careers and international HE adviser with a PhD on the Gothic Drama of MG Lewis, and interests in Regency-era Gothic theatre and Gothic masculinity.
Email: drpearson.rachael@gmail.com
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Animals
Mariangela Ugarelli is a writer and a PhD candidate in Spanish Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. She has a Licenciatura in Hispanic Literature by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her study field encompasses Spanish American Gothic, fantastic and horror literatures, minor literatures, the female Gothic and eco-gothic. At the moment, she is working on her dissertation on Spanish American Gothic during the period of “entresiglos” (between 19th and 20th centuries).
Email: mugarel1@jhu.edu
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Irish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
I am a graduate of the Victorian Gothic MA at Portsmouth University, currently considering a PhD.
Email: jenthepen1@gmail.com
Affiliation: Deakin University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Morgan Pinder is a PhD student researching video games and the ecogothic.
Email: morgan.pinder@gmail.com
Website: https://linktr.ee/mkpinder
Affiliation: University of Hertfordshire
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
I am a lecturer in English Literature. My thesis looked at the literary werewolf as an ecogothic monster. My interests include fairies, trolls, shark horror, and ballet Gothic.
Email: k.franck2@herts.ac.uk
Affiliation: Queen’s University Belfast
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Creatures: Ghosts
I am a media scholar interested in ghosts, the Gothic and history across media (including print).
Email: derek.johnston@qub.ac.uk
Website: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/derek-johnston
Affiliation: University of Kent
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Emma Dee is a final year PhD candidate at the University of Kent, working on a contemporary Gothic novel focusing on gender and sexuality.
Email: emma.dee1@btinternet.com
Affiliation: Franklin College
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts
Emily Banks (MFA, PhD) is a poet and professor at Franklin College. She chairs the Shirley Jackson Society and is a managing editor of Shirley Jackson Studies. Her scholarship has appeared in JMMLA, ESQ, Women’s Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and Arizona Quarterly, as well as the edited collections Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House and Shirley Jackson: A Companion. She has published a book of poetry, Mother Water, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Plume, Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, and The Rumpus.
Email: ebanks@franklincollege.edu
Affiliation: University of Wollongong
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Vampires
I am a PhD student at the University of Wollongong examining the relationship of queer vampires and domestic ideologies.
Email: mersini.karkoulas@gmail.com
Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires
Madeline Potter’s research explores the intersections between monstrosity and theology in Gothic literature, primarily during the long 19th century. She holds a research interest in the ecoGothic.
Email: mpotter3@ed.ac.uk
Website: https://www.madeline-potter.com/
