Stephanie Farnsworth

Affiliation: University of Sunderland

Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Film and TV, Games
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Sunderland. My research creates mutant theory, an expansion on monster theory.

Email: steph.v.farnsworth@gmail.com

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Agnieszka Kotwasinska

Affiliation: University of Warsaw

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

I’m an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, the University of Warsaw. I research embodiment in horror, schizoanalysis, queer death studies, and feminist and queer criticism.

Email: a.kotwasinska@uw.edu.pl

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Sayantan Lahiri

Affiliation: University of Hyderabad

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Sayantan Lahiri is currently working as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) funded Research Intern at the University of Hyderabad, India. The research project focuses on establishing decolonial Indian Research Methodologies (IRM) from Sanskrit Texts. After finishing his MA in English Literature (gold medalist) from the same university, he wishes to pursue research in the areas of postcolonial Gothic, ageing studies, medical humanities, Indian writing in English, posthumanism and cultural studies.

Email: some700065@gmail.com

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Louise Seager

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Genres and Media: Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

I am an Honours student at Australian Catholic University, working on a thesis that explores the relationship between women and monstrosity in Gothic literature.

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Kasturi Ghosh

Affiliation: University of Waterloo

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires

My research reads Gothic fiction of the American South as the outcome of forced identities/ boundaries and the re-emergence of the South’s plural characteristics.

Email: kasturi.ghosh1@uwaterloo.ca

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Thomas Leonard D. Shaw

Affiliation: University of the Philippines, Diliman

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Asian Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters

Thomas Leonard Shaw is a queer, liminal poet-theorist and a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, UP Diliman.

Email: tdshaw@up.edu.ph

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Lilian McCarthy

Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Monsters, Vampires

I am an early career researcher writing about monster studies, medievalisms, classical reception, and animal studies. The Gothic is an undercurrent of a great deal of my research. [she/they]

Email: mccartl9@tcd.ie
Website: https://tcd.academia.edu/LilianRMcCarthy

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Emily Smith

Affiliation: University of Nottingham

Research Areas:
Period: 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
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires

I am a PhD student researching literary representations of witches in 1960s, 70s and 80s horror.

Email: emilyjrsmith95@gmail.com

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K. Subramanyam

Affiliation: Techno India University

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Dr. K. Subramanyam is an early career academic from Kolkata, currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Techno India University, West Bengal.

Email: ksubramanyam@technoindiaeducation.com

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Fiona Snailham

Affiliation: University of Greenwich

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Dr Fiona Snailham is a Lecturer in Gothic Literature at the University of Greenwich. She has a particular interest in the Victorian Gothic.

Email: fiona.snailham@greenwich.ac.uk

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