Mona Jafari is an early-career researcher who holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Tehran, Iran. Her research focuses primarily on twentieth-century British and American literature, the Gothic, literary suicidology, (post-)humanism, parody, and intertextuality. Her research articles have been published in the Studies in Horror and the Gothic collection of Springer Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, British and American Studies, and Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies.