Patrick Munnelly

Affiliation: Community College of Aurora

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Patrick Munnelly is English and Communication Faculty at the Community College of Aurora.

Email: patrick.munnelly@ccaurora.edu

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Felix Nauditt

Affiliation: Bonn University

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic

MA English literature, writer, 19th century-present, interested in mental health and psychopathology, Gothic, Modernism.

Email: s5fenaud@uni-bonn.de
Website: https://bsky.app/profile/felixndt.bsky.social

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Rob Vanston

Affiliation: University of Brighton

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, Black Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Rob Vanston is a PhD student whose thesis is about how evil operates within fiction, and what we can learn from the villain’s story. Rob’s PhD encompasses the villains from the Hellraiser and Alien franchises, as well as the Joker, Dr Hannibal Lecter, the Wicked Witch of the West and Pazuzu from The Exorcist. The main aim of the PhD is to try to understand why we gravitate towards such villains, what can we learn from them, and why they keep coming back. Goodness cannot operate with evil.

Email: r.vanston1@uni.brighton.ac.uk

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Maile Chapman

Affiliation: University of Nevada

Research Areas:
Period: 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts

Associate Professor of Creative Writing & English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Author of novels The Spoil (Graywolf, 2026) and Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto.

Email: maile.chapman@unlv.edu
Website: https://www.unlv.edu/people/maile-chapman

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Christian Wilken

Affiliation: Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Animation, Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Comics and Graphic Novels, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Tourism and Travel
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Asian Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Middle-Eastern Gothic, Nordic Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

Literary scholar exploring hauntology, speculative fiction, and ecocriticism, with a focus on weird fiction, animation, and posthumanism.

Email: christian.wilken@hhu.de

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Jane Gill

Affiliation: University of Hertfordshire

Research Areas:
Period: 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Gender: Female Gothic, Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Eco-Gothic, Folklore and Myth
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV, Games, Poetry, Theatre and Performance, Virtual Gothic
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, Antipodean Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic
Creatures: Aliens, Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires, Zombies

Jane Gill is a PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire, focusing on the monstrous feminine through an Eco-Gothic lens, particularly the female vampire.

Email: jane.gill@hotmail.com

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Steven K Brehe

Affiliation: University of North Georgia

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth
Regions and Cultures: European Gothic
Creatures: Vampires

Steven K Brehe teaches literature, writing, and linguistics in a medium-sized regional university in rural Georgia.

Email: sbrehe@ung.edu

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Amanda Hughes

Affiliation: University of North Texas

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic, 21st Century Gothic
Genres and Media: Fiction, Film and TV, Comics and Graphic Novels, Theatre and Performance
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Southern American Gothic, Welsh Gothic

PhD candidate in English Literature, specializing in early modern British literature. Dissertation topic: the Gothic in 21st century performance of early modern drama.

Email: profamandahughes@gmail.com

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Badr Selfaoui

Affiliation: Université Paris-Cité

Research Areas:
Period: 19th Century Gothic, 20th Century Gothic
Gender: Gothic Masculinity, Queer Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Gothic Music, Gothic Fashion, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Film and TV
Regions and Cultures: Postcolonial Gothic, American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic
Creatures: Animals, Ghosts, Monsters, Vampires

PhD student at Université Paris-Cité (ECHELLES research lab) researching echoes of 19th century and late Gothic literature in contemporary musical and aesthetic countercultures.

Email: selfaoui.badr@gmail.com

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Ken Wagner

Research Areas:
Period: Early Modern Gothic, 18th Century Gothic, 19th Century Gothic
Interdisciplinary Approaches: Folklore and Myth, Technology, Medicine and Science, Spirituality and Religion
Genres and Media: Arts, Fiction, Poetry
Regions and Cultures: American Gothic, European Gothic, Irish Gothic, Scottish Gothic, Welsh Gothic
Creatures: Ghosts

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Email: kmkwagner@protonmail.com
Website: https://kmkwagner.dev

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