Li-Hsin Hsu

Affiliation: National Chengchi University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Li-Hsin Hsu is Professor of English at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

Her research interests include Emily Dickinson studies, Romanticism, Ecocriticism, and Modern Taiwan Poetry.

She has published in a number of international journals, such as the Emily Dickinson Journal, Romanticism, Studies in American Fiction, Ex-position, and Concentric, and guest-edited a number of journal issues, including a special issue on Ecogothic Asia for SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English (July 2022), and another special issue on Asian Gothic for The Wenshan Review (June 2023).

She is currently the organiser of the “Taiwan in the Anthropocene II” research group, sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan.

She has also contributed to a number of edited volumes, such as Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750–1918 (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class, Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), on topics related to space, environment, and race.

Email: johsu@mail2.nccu.tw
Website: https://english.nccu.edu.tw/PageStaffing/Detail?fid=5130&id=1446

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Adam Kealley

Affiliation: Curtin University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Antipodean Gothic

I am a secondary teacher and early career researcher with an interest in the Australian Gothic within YA literature. My thesis explores the value of spectrality and haunting as a mode of engaging with elided queer histories and recognising the haunted condition of queer adolescents.

Email: ajkealley@iinet.net.au
Website: https://adamkealley.academia.edu

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Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir

Affiliation: University of Iceland

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Arctic Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir is Associate Professor in English at the University of Iceland. Her main research interests are in historical fiction and Scottish literature.

Email: ingibjoa@hi.is
Website: https://hi.academia.edu/IngibjorgAgustsdottir

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Jennifer Schell

Affiliation: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Jennifer Schell is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her specialties include critical animal studies, ecogothic, ecohorror, and North American literature/film.

Email: jschell5@alaska.edu

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Nancy Schumann

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Nancy is a writer of poetry, short stories and longer texts on a variety of topics in both English and German and her works have been published in both languages. Nancy’s particular interest, both in fiction and academically, are female vampires.

She has been researching, reading and writing vampires for years. She has a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Leipzig. Her MA thesis formed the basis to Take A Bite, available in vamped up form for public consumption.

Her crime story, Kaffeeduft in London, is currently only available in German but she’d be more than happy to translate the story into English for any interested publisher.

Email: nancy@bookswithbite.in
Website: www.bookswithbite.in

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Jade Hainsworth-Walsh

Affiliation: Royal Holloway, University of London

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic

Jade Hainsworth-Walsh’s research examines the function of art within Gothic literature, predominantly in the long 19th and 20th centuries.

Email: Jade.Hainsworth-Walsh.2021@live.rhul.ac.uk

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Susanne Schwertfeger

Affiliation: Kunsthistorisches Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Email: schwertfeger@kunstgeschichte.uni-kiel.de

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Nicola Bowring

Affiliation: Nottingham Trent University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Literature, working on language and communication in the Gothic, and on the Midlands, Travel and Gothic.

Email: nicola.bowring@ntu.ac.uk

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Craig Thomson

Affiliation: Birkbeck, University of London

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Craig Thomson is an editor and academic researcher from Birkbeck, University of London. He has contributed chapters to The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror and Mobius Media, as well as written and consulted for TED-Education. His research interests include popular culture, Gothic literature, monster theory and folkloristics. His current work focuses on the popular history of the werewolf within British Gothic Literature from the late 19th Century.

Email: cthoms05@mail.bbk.ac.uk
Website: https://monstrousfolklore.com/

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Phoenix Guqing Wang

Affiliation: Dartmouth College

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a graduate student researching 19th-century Anglophone literature, Gothic, and Environmental Humanities. My broader interests involve the representations of Anthropocene issues and the body in contemporary horror literature/film.

Email: phoenixwang0422@gmail.com

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