Sina Raeder

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Sina Raeder is a postgrad independent Gothic scholar with a focus on genre evolution, phenomenological readings of haunted houses, and lesbian vampires.

Email: sina@schmudlach.de

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Sol McIntyre

Affiliation: Lincoln Bishop University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

Sol McIntyre is a PhD student researching trauma and hauntings in the American Gothic.

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Taylor Hall

Affiliation: Manchester Metropolitan University

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Queer Gothic, Trans Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Creatures: Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Taylor Hall is an MA student at MMU.

Email: taylor.r.hall@stu.mmu.ac.uk

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Stephanie Roberts

Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Boston

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Creole Gothic, English Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

English 101 and 102 professor; research areas and interests- 20th and 21st century American, French, and Irish independent lit/films and the Gothic: postcolonial, eco, folk, and southern gothic; research questions surrounding memory, the mind, atrocity and non-representation, haunting, nostalgia, and film form.

Email: s7roberts@bridgew.edu

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Dania Idriss

Affiliation: University of Calgary

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Gender
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, African Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, Caribbean Gothic, Creole Gothic, Latin American Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Dania Idriss is a Lebanese-Canadian author and a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. Her writing focuses on global gothic, particularly Arabic speculative fiction. Her first book was published in Spring 2026.

Email: didriss22@gmail.com

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Elena Romea Parente

Affiliation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Poetry, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic, European Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Southern American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Elena Romea Parente is a university lecturer and researcher in literature, film, and linguistics, specialising in contemporary narratives, Spanish horror cinema, and interdisciplinary cultural studies.

Email: elena.romea.parente@gmail.com
Website: https://spanishfear.com

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Dawn Keetley

Affiliation: Lehigh University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Black Gothic, English Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Zombies

Dawn Keetley is a Professor of English and Film at Lehigh University and editor of the journal Horror Studies and the website HorrorHomeroom.com. Obsessed with folk horror.

Email: dek7@lehigh.edu
Website: https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/DawnKeetley

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Nicola Belte

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Children and YA
Regions and Cultures: English Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Nicola Belte is a writer of weird things (for kids and adults) and a PhD student researching the female body in folk horror fiction.

Email: nicola.belte@gmail.com

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Darian Wharton

Affiliation: University of New Mexico

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, English Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Monsters, Vampires

Darian Wharton is a PhD student at UNM, and is interest in how Gothic stories and anxieties change for the culture they are written in and is exploring how Scotland, Ireland, and Wales’s expression of anxiety within Gothic novels.

Email: dwharton@unm.edu

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Sonja Zimmermann

Affiliation: University of Stirling

Research Areas:
Period: 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
Genres and Media: Fiction
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Arctic Gothic, English Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Sonja Zimmermann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Stirling, researching the History of Emotions and queer feelings in (American) Gothic and horror fiction.

Email: sonja.zimmermann89@gmail.com

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