Dr Roxanne Douglas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies, the University of Warwick. She is the co-founder and leader of the Women in World-Literature project, which comprises of regular conferences and a global network. Roxanne specialises in bringing together feminist theory, world-literary theories, and Gothic, Horror and the Weird (GoHoW) genre studies. Her first book, Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women’s World-Literature: “Living with Ghosts” was published with Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘New Comparisons in World Literature’ series. She has previously published in Hypatia, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of World Systems Research, and more. Her current research focuses on global women’s apocalyptic writing.