Sandie Mills

Affiliation: University of Hull

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am completing a PhD on the figure of the ‘living’ doll in contemporary horror and increasingly interested in the intersections between technology and Gothic Studies.

Email: sandiemills89@gmail.com

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Dara Downey

Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 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, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Zombies

Dara Downey is a precariously employed lecturer working on American Gothic, with particular interests in domesticity, space and place, material culture, labour and class, and religion.

Email: dara.p.downey@gmail.com

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Janice Lynne Deitner

Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Zombies

Shirley Jackson scholar, with interests in Gothic Science Fiction, all eras of American Gothic, and infection/contagion, particularly in zombie narratives.

Email: deitnerj@tcd.ie
Website: https://shirleyjackson21stcentury.wordpress.com

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Eric Parisot

Affiliation: Flinders University

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

I am a Senior Lecturer in English interested in the British long eighteenth century, including graveyard poetry, literary treatments of death and suicide, and vampires.

Email: eric.parisot@flinders.edu.au

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Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Affiliation: University of California, San Diego

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

A medievalist by training, I research legends and literary monsters. My new book is Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew (U Michigan).

Email: llampert@ucsd.edu
Website: https://literature.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/llampertweissig.html

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Kirstin Mills

Affiliation: Macquarie University

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

Dr Kirstin Mills is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, specialising in long-nineteenth-century Gothic and supernatural literature and its twenty-first-century digital media adaptations.

Email: kirstin.mills@mq.edu.au
Website: http://www.kirstinmills.com/

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Ellen Malenas Ledoux

Affiliation: Rutgers University-Camden

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, European Gothic

Ellen Ledoux is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers-Camden. Her book Social Reform in Gothic Writing was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2013).

Email: eledoux@rutgers.edu
Website: https://ellen.ledoux.us/

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Rachael Pearson

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

I am a careers and international HE adviser with a PhD on the Gothic Drama of MG Lewis, and interests in Regency-era Gothic theatre and Gothic masculinity.

Email: drpearson.rachael@gmail.com

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Mariangela Ugarelli

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Animals

Mariangela Ugarelli is a writer and a PhD candidate in Spanish Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. She has a Licenciatura in Hispanic Literature by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her study field encompasses Spanish American Gothic, fantastic and horror literatures, minor literatures, the female Gothic and eco-gothic. At the moment, she is working on her dissertation on Spanish American Gothic during the period of “entresiglos” (between 19th and 20th centuries).

Email: mugarel1@jhu.edu

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JC Burrell

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Irish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Vampires

I am a graduate of the Victorian Gothic MA at Portsmouth University, currently considering a PhD.

Email: jenthepen1@gmail.com

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