Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Mikayla Garcia holds a Master of Arts in English. Her interests include horror films and horror literature that concern fmale transformation into monsters, vampires, and children’s Gothic.
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters
Ali Eren Yanik is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature programme at the University of Texas at Austin.
Email: ali.yanik@utexas.edu
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters
Charlotte Winter is a PhD researcher in weird fiction and fungi at the University of Birmingham.
Affiliation: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I teach foreign literature, mostly English and American, and I’m part of a team that prepares Russian annotated collections of classic ghost stories.
Email: nastya.lipinska@gmail.com
Affiliation: University of Pavia
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
Annachiara Cozzi is a post-doc researcher at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests include collaboration studies, Victorian popular fiction, the Irish Gothic, and colonial and postcolonial Indian studies.
Email: annachiara.cozzi@unipv.it
Affiliation: Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires
Gaïd Girard is professor emeritus at the UBO in Brest, France. She has published on Irish Gothic (Sheridan Le Fanu) and cinema (Gothic and science fiction).
Affiliation: Auckland University of Technology
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies
Amanda Rutherford works in the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is a member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, International Gothic Association, the Pacific Modern and Ancient Language Association and the Northeast Modern Language Association. Her interests include mediated popular culture, fairytale, fantasy, Gothic and horror.
Email: nrutherford@xtra.co.nz
Affiliation: University of Sunderland
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies
I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Sunderland. My research creates mutant theory, an expansion on monster theory.
Email: steph.v.farnsworth@gmail.com
Affiliation: University of Warsaw
Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I’m an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, the University of Warsaw. I research embodiment in horror, schizoanalysis, queer death studies, and feminist and queer criticism.
Email: a.kotwasinska@uw.edu.pl
Affiliation: University of Hyderabad
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies
Sayantan Lahiri is currently working as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) funded Research Intern at the University of Hyderabad, India. The research project focuses on establishing decolonial Indian Research Methodologies (IRM) from Sanskrit Texts. After finishing his MA in English Literature (gold medalist) from the same university, he wishes to pursue research in the areas of postcolonial Gothic, ageing studies, medical humanities, Indian writing in English, posthumanism and cultural studies.
Email: some700065@gmail.com
