Caterina Liberace

Affiliation: University College London

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

I am a PhD candidate researching the role of landscape, architecture and material culture in Gothic horror.

Email: caterina.liberace.19@ucl.ac.uk

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Evelyn Koch

Affiliation: Philipps University of Marburg

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

I have a PhD in Early Modern literature. I am currently a Post-Doc in English Literature at Philipps University of Marburg.

Email: evelyn-koch@web.de
Website: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb10/iaa/institut/personen/dr-evelyn-koch/dr-evelyn-koch

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Ronny Manor

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a graduate student interested in traditional and contemporary Gothic novels viewed through the lens of gender, childhood and postcolonial studies, currently working on thesis focusing on female monstrosity.

Email: ronnyman85@gmail.com

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Grace Rhyne

Affiliation: University of Warwick

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a PhD student at the University of Warwick with a thesis focusing on ghost stories written by 19thC women.

Email: grace.rhyne@warwick.ac.uk

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Krista Collier-Jarvis

Affiliation: Dalhousie University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Zombies

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. My dissertation looks at how applying Indigenous approaches to knowledge to Turtle Island Gothic texts can help us better understanding living with contagion.

Email: Krista.Collier-Jarvis@dal.ca

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Bridget Marshall

Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Professor Bridget Marshall’s most recent book is Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation, and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of Wales Press, 2021).

Email: Bridget_Marshall@uml.edu
Website: https://sites.uml.edu/bridget-marshall/

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Sarah James

Affiliation: Selkirk College

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Canadian Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

I am an English Literature educator at a small post-secondary college in British Columbia. My graduate research past and present explores feminist literary considerations of the eco-Gothic, the environment, and the witch.

Email: sjames@selkirk.ca

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Francesca Saggini

Affiliation: Università della Tuscia

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Canadian Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Dr Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. Francesca is the author of, among others, The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable Mention at the 2016 ESSE Book Awards) and Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies). In 2021-2023, Francesca was PI on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded project at the University of Edinburgh (Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences, OpeRaNew, Grant ID. 892230).

Email: fsaggini@unitus.it
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1600-5821

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Jessica Monaco

Affiliation: Stanford University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction

Jessica Monaco is a PhD candidate in the Stanford University English Department. Her cross-temporal research combines 19th-century British literature, digital humanities, and current medieval studies.

Email: jmmonaco@stanford.edu

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