Martina Bartlett

Affiliation: University of Winchester

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 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, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I have just completed a PhD thesis on the work of John Polidori. I have broad interests in somnambulism and mesmerism, vampires and other monsters.

Email: martinabartlett@hotmail.co.uk

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Deanna Koretsky

Affiliation: Spelman College

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

Deanna P. Koretsky specializes in critical race and feminist approaches to Gothic and horror. Her current work focuses on The Vampire Diaries franchise. She is also completing an edition of Mary Shelley’s Mathilda for Oxford University Press. Her first book, Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism (2021), shows how cultural representations of suicide inherited from the nineteenth century continue to reinforce anti-Blackness in the modern world.

Email: dkoretsk@spelman.edu
Website: www.deannakoretsky.com

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Özge Erdem

Affiliation: Middle East Technical University

Research Areas:
Period: 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: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am a Gothic scholar with a focus on Gothic space and subject, working especially with spatial, psychoanalytic and post-structural theories.

Email: ozerdem@metu.edu.tr

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Leonie Rowland

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Asian Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Leonie Rowland is a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she researches Japanese Gothic in the age of animist capitalism.

Email: leonierowland@outlook.com
Website: https://leonierowland.com/

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Brontë Schiltz

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies

Brontë Schiltz is a PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University researching the Televisual Gothic, Principal Editor of The Hive and IGA Members Coordinator.

Email: bronte.schiltz@gmail.com
Website: https://bronteschiltz.squarespace.com/

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Scott Brewster

Affiliation: University of Lincoln

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

I am the co-author (with Lucie Armitt) of Gothic Travel Through Haunted Landscapes: Climates of Fear (2022) and co-editor (with Luke Thurston) of Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017).

Email: sbrewster@lincoln.ac.uk

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Jennifer Loring

Affiliation: Union Institute & University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Jennifer Loring is a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies – Humanities and Culture. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing Popular Fiction

Email: Jennifer.Loring@email.myunion.edu

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Charles L. Crow

Affiliation: Bowling Green State University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Southern American Gothic

California native. BA Stanford, MA, PhD Berkeley. Taught at Bowling Green (Ohio) and in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Croatia.

Email: charleslcrow@yahoo.com

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Claire Nally

Affiliation: Northumbria University

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Comics and Graphic Novels, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Irish Gothic

I am a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, specialising in Irish Studies, subcultures, death studies, contemporary Gothic, Neo-Victorianism and dark tourism.

Email: claire.nally@northumbria.ac.uk
Website: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/n/claire-nally/

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