Shannon Scott

Affiliation: University of St. Thomas

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Shannon Scott is an adjunct Professor of English at several universities in the Twin Cities. She has contributed essays to collections published by Manchester UP and Routledge. She is co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896. Shannon has also published short fiction in Nightmare Magazine, Nightscript, The Other Stories, and Water~Stone Review. She has created two lecture series for Audible about the horror genre.

Email: sscott@stthomas.edu
Website: https://sf-scott.com/

Laura Kremmel

Affiliation: Niagara University

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, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am an assistant professor at Niagara University, specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, Gothic literature, health humanities, history of medicine, disability studies, death studies, and horror film, with growing interests in ecogothic. Publications include Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022), The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (co-edited, 2018), and several book chapters and articles. I occasionally contribute to the horror film blog horrorhomeroom.com

Email: LauraRKremmel@gmail.com

Enrique Ajuria Ibarra

Affiliation: Universidad de las Américas Puebla

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Humanities. My research focuses mainly on Gothic, horror, hauntings, and monsters in film and literature.

Email: enrique.ajuria@udlap.mx

Gisèle M. Baxter

Affiliation: University of British Columbia

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

My teaching and research interests include the Gothic inheritance in literature and popular culture, especially late-Victorian to contemporary, dystopian/post-apocalyptic texts, and mostly British Modernism.

Email: Gisele.Baxter@ubc.ca
Website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/giselebaxter/

Jamil Mustafa

Affiliation: Lewis University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Jamil Mustafa is Professor of English Studies at Lewis University and host of the 2019 IGA conference. He studies (neo-)Victorian Gothic and horror films.

Email: mustafja@lewisu.edu
Website: https://jamilmustafa.academia.edu/

Diana Pérez Edelman

Affiliation: University of North Georgia

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV

I specialize in literature and medicine. My monograph, Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel, traces the connection between the reproductive sciences and Gothic.

Email: diana.edelman@ung.edu

Catherine Spooner

Affiliation: Lancaster University

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: Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University and an ex-president of the IGA. She is both an academic and creative writer.

Email: c.spooner@lancaster.ac.uk
Website: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literature-and-creative-writing/people/catherine-spooner

Matthias Stephan

Affiliation: Aarhus University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals

Matthias Stephan researches postmodernism, its implications in Gothic, sci-fi, and crime fiction, and their intersections in considering global climate change.

Email: engms@cc.au.dk

Jemma Stewart

Affiliation: Birkbeck College, University of London

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a PhD student researching the language of flowers and the Victorian Gothic, interested in the Female Gothic, the ecoGothic, and ecofeminism.

Email: jstewa07@student.bbk.ac.uk

Oliver Rendle

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Zombies

I am a writer and researcher interested in intersections between horror, humour and pessimistic philosophy. I completed my PhD the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies in 2022.

Email: OMRendle@outlook.com