Affiliation: University of Glasgow
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
I am a PhD student at the University of Glasgow (split with the University of Stirling), researching the influence of Gothic fiction on late-Victorian journalism concerning gender violence. I have a general interest in all things relating to nineteenth-century Gothic and periodicals.
Email: g.gale.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Website: https://www.victorian-gothic.co.uk/
Affiliation: University of Porto
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Tânia Cerqueira is a PhD candidate at the University of Porto. Her thesis explores the relationship between the Gothic tradition and young adult dystopian fiction.
Email: tania_filipa_07@hotmail.com
Affiliation: Chiang Mai University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Asian Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts
Isaraporn Pissa-ard (PhD) teaches undergraduate courses in world literature, mythology and folklore, and translation at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Her research interests include Gothic literature, world literature, dystopian fiction, posthumanism, critical folklore studies.
Email: eng102course@gmail.com
Website: https://chiangmai.academia.edu/isarapornpissaard
Affiliation: University of Tehran
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters
Mona Jafari is an early-career researcher who holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century British and American literature, the Gothic, literary suicidology, (post-)humanism, parody, and intertextuality. Her research articles have been published in the Studies in Horror and the Gothic collection of Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, British and American Studies, and Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies.
Email: mona.jafari1@ut.ac.ir
Affiliation: Tekirdag Namik Kemal University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Dr Tuğçe Bıçakçı Syed is an independent scholar, editor, and writer based in Birmingham, UK. She earned her PhD in English from Lancaster University in 2018, fully funded by the Turkish Ministry of Education. Her research focuses on the Gothic mode in Turkish literature and film, examining its historical evolution through ideological, cultural, and political shifts. She has published critical essays on popular genres in Turkish literature and cinema, as well as representations of Turkish identity in British and American Gothic texts. Her recent publications include “Global Gothic 1: Islamic Gothic” in The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3 – Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (CUP, 2021) and “Gothicising the Ottoman Past and Building Modern Turkey in Turkish Gothic Novels of the 1920s” in Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past (UWP, 2022).
Email: tbsyed@nku.edu.tr
Affiliation: University of Buckingham
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Amy Coles is a doctoral student at the University of Buckingham researching the female double in literature.
Email: amycoles5@icloud.com
Affiliation: Karlstad University
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Trans Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies
Charles D’Aniello is a PhD student in English Literature with an interest in weird fiction, supernatural horror, and creepypasta.
Email: charlespdaniello@gmail.com
Website: https://www.kau.se/en/employees/charles-daniello
Affiliation: Moraine Valley Community College
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Monsters, Vampires
I am a teacher, writer, poet, and Goth nerd working with Star Trek and other TV shows within the context of some heritage Gothic texts.
Email: cmillsapspears@gmail.com
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Sinead Tobin has an MA in Children’s and YA Literature with a focus on Children’s Gothic.
Email: sine_ad@hotmail.com
Affiliation: Gulf University for Science & Technology
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Elizabeth Abele joined Gulf University for Science and Technology (Kuwait) in 2020. Her recent essay “Guillermo del Toro’s Political Fairy Tales” was published by REDEN.
Email: abele.e@gust.edu.kw