Penny Senanarong is a PhD researcher at the University of Bath, whose research focuses on climate change, with an interest in folklore and the eco-gothic.

Shabnam Ahsan researches the Gothic in British and South Asian fairy tales, specialising in nineteenth-century Indian tales and contemporary retellings by British South Asian authors.

Andrew Smith is Emeritus Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature, University of Sheffield.

Phillip Johnson is a professor at Tokyo International University specialised in writing courses. His passion for literature, creative writing, design, and emergent technology have opened new vistas in his research.

Malinda Hackett is a graduate student at Claremont Graduate University and a part-time adjunct at California State University, Northridge.

Keirán Morrissey-Fernández is a PhD student in the University of Limerick investigating the influence that Cervantes had on Charles Maturin.

Lobke Minter is a postdoctoral researcher at Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Her current project, ‘Forest Imaginaries, Colonial History and the Timber Commodity Frontier: Tree Plantations in South African Literature’, is a two-year research project funded by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education.

Harry Rooke-Kelly is a postgraduate from Brunel University of London interested in Trans and Queer Gothic, the Cosmic, and more.

Researching nineteenth-century Irish Gothic fiction, examining how Catholic and Protestant writers represent the monstrous differently across sociocultural, religious, and political contexts.