Professor Bridget Marshall’s most recent book is Industrial Gothic: Workers, Exploitation, and Urbanization in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of Wales Press, 2021).

I am an English Literature educator at a small post-secondary college in British Columbia. My graduate research past and present explores feminist literary considerations of the eco-Gothic, the environment, and the witch.

Dr Francesca Saggini is Professor in English Literature at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. Francesca is the author of, among others, The Gothic Novel and the Stage: Romantic Appropriations (2015, Honourable Mention at the 2016 ESSE Book Awards) and Backstage in the Novel: Frances Burney and the Theater Arts (2012, Walken Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work in eighteenth-century studies). In 2021-2023, Francesca was PI on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-funded project at the University of Edinburgh (Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences, OpeRaNew, Grant ID. 892230).

Jessica Monaco is a PhD candidate in the Stanford University English Department. Her cross-temporal research combines 19th-century British literature, digital humanities, and current medieval studies.

Laura Davidel researches Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, liminality and monstrosity.

My research centers on formal and structural elements of female Gothic texts, focusing especially on how these components relate to monstrosity.

Julia Drewnowicz is an MA English Literature student interested in Gothic/horror literature, femininity perspectives and critiques of psychoanalysis.

I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the New English Literatures and Cultures Department of the Institute of English and American Studies. After finishing my studies at Freie Universität Berlin (BA and MA) with a thesis on the Postcolonial Gothic in Australia, I earned my PhD as part of the joint programme between Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and Goethe University with a thesis titled “Unsettling the Anthropocene: Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature.” My postdoctoral project explores intergenerational justice in transcultural Anglophone texts, but I remain interested in various forms of the Gothic.

Stefanie Tegeler is a research associate and doctoral student at the University of Münster. Her research primarily focuses on 19th century literature and speculative fiction.