Pierluigi Iliceto

Affiliation: University of Foggia

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

I’m a PhD student from the University of Foggia, Italy, currently engaged in a research project on Horace Walpole’s works and early Gothicism.

Email: pierluigi.iliceto@gmail.com

Alex Carabine

Affiliation: University of Liverpool

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 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, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Alex is an overdressed PhD candidate, researching the influences of medieval arts, culture and literature on nineteenth-century Gothic fiction.

Email: psacarab@liverpool.ac.uk

Ellen Boyd

Affiliation: UC Riverside

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic

Ellen Boyd recently finished her MA at Lehigh University, and will be pursing her studies in horror and archive studies as a PhD student at UC Riverside.

Email: eraven1313@gmail.com

Mikayla Garcia

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Mikayla Garcia holds a Master of Arts in English. Her interests include horror films and horror literature that concern fmale transformation into monsters, vampires, and children’s Gothic.

Ali Eren Yanik

Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Ali Eren Yanik is a PhD student in the Comparative Literature programme at the University of Texas at Austin.

Email: ali.yanik@utexas.edu

Charlotte Winter

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters

Charlotte Winter is a PhD researcher in weird fiction and fungi at the University of Birmingham.

Anastasia A. Lipinskaya

Affiliation: Saint Petersburg State University of Economics

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I teach foreign literature, mostly English and American, and I’m part of a team that prepares Russian annotated collections of classic ghost stories.

Email: nastya.lipinska@gmail.com

Annachiara Cozzi

Affiliation: University of Pavia

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

Annachiara Cozzi is a post-doc researcher at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research interests include collaboration studies, Victorian popular fiction, the Irish Gothic, and colonial and postcolonial Indian studies.

Email: annachiara.cozzi@unipv.it

Gaïd Girard

Affiliation: Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO)

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

Gaïd Girard is professor emeritus at the UBO in Brest, France. She has published on Irish Gothic (Sheridan Le Fanu) and cinema (Gothic and science fiction).

Amanda Rutherford

Affiliation: Auckland University of Technology

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Film and TV, Children and YA, Games
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Amanda Rutherford works in the School of Language and Culture at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She is a member of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, International Gothic Association, the Pacific Modern and Ancient Language Association and the Northeast Modern Language Association. Her interests include mediated popular culture, fairytale, fantasy, Gothic and horror.

Email: nrutherford@xtra.co.nz