Mona Jafari

Affiliation: University of Tehran

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters

Mona Jafari is an early-career researcher who holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century British and American literature, the Gothic, literary suicidology, (post-)humanism, parody, and intertextuality. Her research articles have been published in the Studies in Horror and the Gothic collection of Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, British and American Studies, and Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies.

Email: mona.jafari1@ut.ac.ir

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Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed

Affiliation: Tekirdag Namik Kemal University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Dr Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed is an independent scholar, editor, and writer based in Birmingham, UK. She earned her PhD in English from Lancaster University in 2018, fully funded by the Turkish Ministry of Education. Her research focuses on the Gothic mode in Turkish literature and film, examining its historical evolution through ideological, cultural, and political shifts. She has published critical essays on popular genres in Turkish literature and cinema, as well as representations of Turkish identity in British and American Gothic texts. Her recent publications include “Global Gothic 1: Islamic Gothic” in The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3 – Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (CUP, 2021) and “Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Gothic Novels of the 1920s” in Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past (UWP, 2022).

Email: tbsyed@nku.edu.tr

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Amy Coles

Affiliation: University of Buckingham

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century 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
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Amy Coles is a doctoral student at the University of Buckingham researching the female double in literature.

Email: amycoles5@icloud.com

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Charles Perseus D’Aniello

Affiliation: Karlstad University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games, Poetry, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Charles Perseus D’Aniello is studying for his MA in Anglophone Literature. He also runs ‘warning lines’, an indie literary journal for the (queer) Gothic and Satanic.

Email: charlespdaniello@gmail.com
Website: https://www.warninglines.com/the-editor

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Carey Millsap-Spears

Affiliation: Moraine Valley Community College

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Monsters, Vampires

I am a teacher, writer, poet, and Goth nerd working with Star Trek and other TV shows within the context of some heritage Gothic texts.

Email: cmillsapspears@gmail.com

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Sinead Tobin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Sinead Tobin has an MA in Children’s and YA Literature with a focus on Children’s Gothic.

Email: sine_ad@hotmail.com

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Elizabeth Abele

Affiliation: Gulf University for Science & Technology

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Film and TV

Elizabeth Abele joined Gulf University for Science and Technology (Kuwait) in 2020. Her recent essay “Guillermo del Toro’s Political Fairy Tales” was published by REDEN.

Email: abele.e@gust.edu.kw

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Pierluigi Iliceto

Affiliation: University of Foggia

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

I’m a PhD student from the University of Foggia, Italy, currently engaged in a research project on Horace Walpole’s works and early Gothicism.

Email: pierluigi.iliceto@gmail.com

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Alex Carabine

Affiliation: University of Liverpool

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, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Alex is an overdressed PhD candidate, researching the influences of medieval arts, culture and literature on nineteenth-century Gothic fiction.

Email: psacarab@liverpool.ac.uk

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Ellen Boyd

Affiliation: UC Riverside

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic

Ellen Boyd recently finished her MA at Lehigh University, and will be pursing her studies in horror and archive studies as a PhD student at UC Riverside.

Email: eraven1313@gmail.com

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