Morgan Pinder

Affiliation: Deakin University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Morgan Pinder is a PhD student researching video games and the ecogothic.

Email: morgan.pinder@gmail.com
Website: https://linktr.ee/mkpinder

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Kaja Franck

Affiliation: University of Hertfordshire

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am a lecturer in English Literature. My thesis looked at the literary werewolf as an ecogothic monster. My interests include fairies, trolls, shark horror, and ballet Gothic.

Email: k.franck2@herts.ac.uk

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Derek Johnston

Affiliation: Queen’s University Belfast

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Creatures: Ghosts

I am a media scholar interested in ghosts, the Gothic and history across media (including print).

Email: derek.johnston@qub.ac.uk
Website: https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/derek-johnston

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Emma Dee

Affiliation: University of Kent

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Emma Dee is a final year PhD candidate at the University of Kent, working on a contemporary Gothic novel focusing on gender and sexuality.

Email: emma.dee1@btinternet.com

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Emily Banks

Affiliation: Franklin College

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Emily Banks (MFA, PhD) is a poet and professor at Franklin College. She chairs the Shirley Jackson Society and is a managing editor of Shirley Jackson Studies. Her scholarship has appeared in JMMLA, ESQ, Women’s Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and Arizona Quarterly, as well as the edited collections Shirley Jackson and Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House and Shirley Jackson: A Companion. She has published a book of poetry, Mother Water, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Plume, Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, and The Rumpus.

Email: ebanks@franklincollege.edu

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Mersini Karkoulas

Affiliation: University of Wollongong

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

I am a PhD student at the University of Wollongong examining the relationship of queer vampires and domestic ideologies.

Email: mersini.karkoulas@gmail.com

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Madeline Potter

Affiliation: University of Edinburgh

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

Madeline Potter’s research explores the intersections between monstrosity and theology in Gothic literature, primarily during the long 19th century. She holds a research interest in the ecoGothic.

Email: mpotter3@ed.ac.uk
Website: https://www.madeline-potter.com/

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Henry Bartholomew

Affiliation: Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Henry Bartholomew is a lecturer in the department of literary and translation studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, China. His research centres on the ghost story (1880-1920), the Gothic, weird fiction, speculative realism, OOO, “things”, “objects”, and aesthetics.

He is the editor of three books: Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (British Library Press, 2021), The Unknown: Weird Writings by Algernon Blackwood, 1900-1937 (Handheld Press, 2023), and The Living Stone: Tales of Uncanny Sculpture, 1848-1938 (Handheld Press, 2023). His other published work has appeared in the journal Open Philosophy (2019) and The Palgrave Handbook to the Vampire (2023).

Email: Henry.bartholomew@xjtlu.edu.cn
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew

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Helen Pinsent

Affiliation: Dalhousie University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Helen Pinsent (she/her) is a PhD candidate studying (auto)mobility, monstrosity, and Gothic engagement with the American dream.

Email: helen.pinsent@dal.ca

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Jude Wright

Affiliation: International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I am a teacher, researcher and editor working on Gothic and horror literature, Frankenstein and monsters.

Email: bjwright@mail.usf.edu

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