Harriet Fletcher

Affiliation: Anglia Ruskin University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

Harriet is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Anglia Ruskin University. Her book Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga (Bloomsbury, 2025) explores intersections of celebrity and the Gothic in literature, media and popular culture. She has further interests in Horror Studies and Feminist Media Studies.

Email: harriet.fletcher@aru.ac.uk
Website: https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/harriet-fletcher

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Alistair Lavers

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV

Author of The Whitborough Novels and MORTAL, A Ghost Story (Oct 23). Fourth generation occultist, media consultant and speaker. Featured in Back in Black and Wolflands documentary.

Email: laversguy@gmail.com

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Karl Bell

Affiliation: University of Portsmouth

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am an Associate Professor in Cultural and Social History and course leader for MA Victorian Gothic. My research interests include the Urban Gothic, Nautical Gothic, folklore and environment, and the fantastical imagination.

Email: karl.bell@port.ac.uk
Website: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/karl-bell

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Jenevieve Van-Veda

Affiliation: Aberystwyth University

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, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Asian Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Jenevieve Van-Veda is a PhD student studying Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. Research interests include Globalgothic, ghosts, Japanese folklore, goth subculture, and geisha.

Email: vanveda@zoho.eu

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Thomas Brassington

Affiliation: Lancaster University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a Queer Gothic researcher currently at Lancaster University. My research focuses on gender variance in the Gothic, especially within contemporary popular cultures.

Email: t.brassington4@lancaster.ac.uk
Website: https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/thomas-brassington(537b1601-eeec-4c23-aeda-bce45da83893).html

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Jack Rooney

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

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Shannon Scott

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/

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Laura Kremmel

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

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Enrique Ajuria Ibarra

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

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Gisèle M. Baxter

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/

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