Roxanne Douglas

Affiliation: University of Warwick

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Dr Roxanne Douglas is the leader of the Women in World-Literature project. Roxanne specialises in bringing together feminist theory, world-literary theories, and genre studies. Her first book, Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women’s World-Literature: “Living with Ghosts”, will be published soon. Her current research focuses on global women’s apocalyptic writing.

Email: roxanne.n.douglas@warwick.ac.uk
Website: https://bsky.app/profile/roxannedouglas.bsky.social

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Ruth-Anne Walbank

Affiliation: University of Warwick

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Ruth-Anne Walbank is a postgraduate researcher focusing on Hell and the EcoGothic in the 19th century.

Email: ruthannewalbank@gmail.com
Website: https://linktr.ee/ruthannewalbank

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Zoey Hughes

Affiliation: University of Washington

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: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Zoey Hughes is an Appalachian-born scholar of monstrosity and sexuality.

Email: hughesze@uw.edu

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James Sullivan

Affiliation: University of Exeter

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

MA student researching the Gothic representation of slum spaces, with a particular focus on the works of Arthur Morrison and Gustave Doré’s visual delineations of the urban landscape.

Email: jamessullivan20@icloud.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/jamessullivansite/home

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Andy Thatcher

Affiliation: University of Bristol

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic

Completing a practice-based PhD in Film exploring the meanings of English common land. My research started with experimental documentary and has ended in folk horror.

Email: andy.thatcher@bristol.ac.uk

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Katarzyna Kalosza

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Children and YA, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

Independent researcher with a Masters in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, whose research focuses on publishing trends and professional authorship in the late eighteenth century.

Email: katarzyna.kalosza@gmail.com

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Megen de Bruin-Molé

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Virtual Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé (she/her) is Associate Professor of Digital Media Practice at the University of Southampton. She specialises in ‘monstrous’ adaptation and contemporary remix culture, in particular the digital afterlives and appropriations of historical archives, ephemera, and memory in popular culture.

Email: m.j.de-bruin-mole@soton.ac.uk
Website: http://www.frankenfiction.com

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Alcindor Jenkins

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Animation, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Zombies

I like roaming around NYC streets

Email: alcindorjenkins83@gmail.com

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Scarlette-Electra LeBlanc

Affiliation: University of Hull

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Scarlette-Electra is a PhD candidate investigating the literary/cultural legacies of Holy wells and sacred springs. Her research interests include c19th folklore collections and contemporary ritual.

Email: secwleblanc@outlook.com

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