Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Vampires
Constance C Relihan works on Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla and early modern prose fiction, as well as dark academia and university culture.
Email: ccrelihan@vcu.edu
Affiliation: University of Salamanca
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Graduate in Spanish Language and Literatures, Master in Hispanic Literatures and Theories of Literature, currently PhD candidate (FPU contract) at the University of Salamanca. I research political Gothic in recent Hispanic narratives.
Email: monicacasadofolgado@gmail.com
Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monica-Casado-Folgado
Affiliation: Yale University
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
I’m a classicist, lover of Gothic literature, and author of a book on the classical roots of the eighteenth-century Gothic, Spectres of Antiquity (2020).
Email: james.uden@yale.edu
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Lex Croucher writes fantasy and rom coms for adults and teenagers, and is the New York Times, Indie & USA Today bestselling author of GWEN AND ART ARE NOT IN LOVE.
Email: lexcanroar@gmail.com
Website: https://www.lexcroucher.co.uk
Affiliation: Emory University
Research Areas:
Period: 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Latin American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
Maria Barreto is an English PhD student at Emory University, specializing in contemporary Latin American Gothic, specifically researching the intersection of memory and identity.
Email: mabarr2@emory.edu
Affiliation: University of Exeter
Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Hannah Nelson is currently completing an MA in English literary studies, with interest in the relationship the Gothic has with nationalism, personhood, and themes of isolation.
Email: hannahlnelson62@gmail.com
Affiliation: Los Angeles Pierce College
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: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Tropical Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies
Darren Borg has taught English literature at Los Angeles Pierce College since 2008. He earned his PhD from Claremont Graduate University in 2019. His work focuses on the connections between literary form, subjectivity, and ideology. He is currently working on a book on the uncanny in nineteenth-century fiction.
Email: borgdj@piercecollege.edu
Affiliation: University of Regensburg
Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires
I am a research associate, lecturer, and PhD candidate at the University of Regensburg’s Chair for English Literature and Culture, specialising in the long nineteenth-century.
Email: anna-maria.grill@sprachlit.uni-regensburg.de
Website: https://www.uni-regensburg.de/sprache-literatur-kultur/anglistik/staff/grill/index.html
Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Vampires
Elizabeth Moore is a writer and educator whose work explores Gothic literature, feminist form, and the haunting interplay between bodies, spaces, and narrative voice.
Email: lizmoore34@gmail.com