Affiliation: The Ohio State University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Creatures: Ghosts
Jack Rooney is a Senior Lecturer in English at The Ohio State University who specialises in nineteenth-century British poetry and poetics and Gothicism and spectrality.
Email: Jack.Richard.Rooney@gmail.com
Affiliation: University of St. Thomas
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Shannon Scott is a professor of English and film at the University of St. Thomas. She has published fiction in horror journals and anthologies such as Nightmare Magazine and Dark Spores. She is co-editor of Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896. Shannon has also created two lecture series on the horror genre for Audible. Her nonfiction essays have been published in collections by Manchester UP, Routledge and upcoming from Bloomsbury and McFarland.
Email: sscott@stthomas.edu
Website: https://sf-scott.com/
Affiliation: Niagara University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
I am an assistant professor at Niagara University, specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, Gothic literature, health humanities, history of medicine, disability studies, death studies, and horror film, with growing interests in ecogothic. Publications include Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022), The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (co-edited, 2018), and several book chapters and articles. I occasionally contribute to the horror film blog horrorhomeroom.com
Email: LauraRKremmel@gmail.com
Affiliation: Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I am a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature and Humanities. My research focuses mainly on Gothic, horror, hauntings, and monsters in film and literature.
Email: enrique.ajuria@udlap.mx
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
My teaching and research interests include the Gothic inheritance in literature and popular culture, especially late-Victorian to contemporary, dystopian/post-apocalyptic texts, and mostly British Modernism.
Email: Gisele.Baxter@ubc.ca
Website: https://blogs.ubc.ca/giselebaxter/
Affiliation: Lewis University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Jamil Mustafa is Professor of English Studies at Lewis University and host of the 2019 IGA conference. He studies (neo-)Victorian Gothic and horror films.
Email: mustafja@lewisu.edu
Website: https://jamilmustafa.academia.edu/
Affiliation: University of North Georgia
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
I specialize in literature and medicine. My monograph, Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel, traces the connection between the reproductive sciences and Gothic.
Email: diana.edelman@ung.edu
Affiliation: Lancaster University
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Catherine Spooner is Professor of Literature and Culture at Lancaster University and an ex-president of the IGA. She is both an academic and creative writer.
Email: c.spooner@lancaster.ac.uk
Website: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/english-literature-and-creative-writing/people/catherine-spooner
Affiliation: Aarhus University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals
Matthias Stephan researches postmodernism, its implications in Gothic, sci-fi, and crime fiction, and their intersections in considering global climate change.
Email: engms@cc.au.dk
Affiliation: Birkbeck College, University of London
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I am a PhD student researching the language of flowers and the Victorian Gothic, interested in the Female Gothic, the ecoGothic, and ecofeminism.
Email: jstewa07@student.bbk.ac.uk
