Professor of American Literature and author of The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic (2010) and several essay editions on Gothic topics.

Lecturer in English and BBC New Generation Thinker specialising in Cornwall, coasts, seas, queer ecologies, Shirley Jackson, Ann Radcliffe, sonic Gothic. Haunted Shores Network co-founder.

Associate Professor in the Department of English. Research focuses on monsters, haunted houses, ghost hunting technology, Gothic technologies and anxieties at the turns of centuries.

Mariaconcetta Costantini is full professor of English Literature at G. d’Annunzio University, Italy. Her research primarily focuses on Victorian literature and culture, with a special interest in the Gothic, the sensation novel and crime fiction. Since 2007 she has been IGA executive.

Katarzyna Ancuta explores interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Asian Gothic / Asian Horror in literature, film, television, art and popular culture.

Scholar of Gothic, weird, environmental humanities, and literature and science at Edinburgh Napier University, Editor at Gothic Studies, co-convenor of Haunted Shores Network.

Monica Germanà is Reader in Gothic and Contemporary Studies. Her research focuses on genders, the Gothic tradition in Scotland, and Arctic sea monsters.