Keira Millerchip
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Research Areas:
I am a Psychology student at The Ohio State University with minors in English and Legal Foundations of Society.
Email: millerchip.2@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Ernest Yuen
Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires
Ernest Yuen is an MPhil student. His research interests include poetry and Gothic fiction in Romanticism.
Email: ernestyws@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Suleyman Bolukbas
Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Suleyman Bolukbas is a second year dual-degree PhD student in Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Penn State University. He is especially interested in queer readings of the gothic as an international and global phenomenon. In 2022, he became the assistant editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color.
Email: sfb5885@psu.edu
Asma Chahed
Affiliation: University of Sousse
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, Spirituality and Religion
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Asma Chahed is a holder of a PhD in Southern American literature. Her major interests include southern Gothic, psychology, race, racism, identity issues and marginalised people.
Email: asma.chahed87@gmail.com
Ting-fu Chen
Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
Ting-fu Chen is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His fields of research include literary theory, intellectual history, long nineteenth-century British literature, and mediaeval Chinese literature, with a special attention paid to transnational Gothic, fiction(ality) and history, and the social and cultural significance of notions such as the strange, the marvellous and the extraordinary.
Email: tingfuchen@utexas.edu
Piyush Kumar
Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology (BHU)
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Piyush Kumar is a Goth enthusiast with a desire to traverse unexplored regions.
Email: ypiyush135@gmail.com
Francesca Crisante
Affiliation: University of Chieti
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Francesca Crisante is a lecturer in English literature. Her publication includes a monograph on Virginia Woolf and numerous essays on the Bloomsbury Group. She is a member of the Center for Victorian Studies (University of Chieti) and sits on the advisory board of the series CriLet (Croce, Rome).
Email: fcrisante@unime.it
Charlotte Smith
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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Gothicist, librarian, writer, student, critic.
Email: cmsmith831@gmail.com
Victor LaValle
Affiliation: Columbia University
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction and three comic books. He teaches at Columbia University.
Email: greaseboat@gmail.com
Website: http://www.victorlavalle.com
Paromita Patranobish
Affiliation: Mount Carmel College
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Creole Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
Dr. Paromita Patranobish’s work focuses on the intellectual history of the body in modernity, and its contemporary iterations in literature and visual arts in relation to globalisation and multispecies relations. She is Assistant Professor of English, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore.
Email: paromita.patranobish1@gmail.com