Aparajita Hazra

Dr Aparajita Hazra is Dean of Arts and Professor in the Department of English in Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal, India. A gold medallist and a National Scholar, she has also acted as Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies and the Director of the Centre for Foreign Language Studies in SKB University, India. She has been widely published and has presented papers widely in India, France, New Zealand, Macau, Malaysia, Canada, Ireland, Georgia and Scotland. She has authored The Terrible Beauty, Her Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Brontes: A Sorority of Passion, Marlowe, The Muse’s Darling and The Art of Articulation from Macmillan Publishers. An Anthology on the Gothic is on the way. She is the recipient of the Noble Asian Educational Leader Award, 2020, the Asian Education Award 2021, the National Faculty Award for 2021-22.

Carina Hart

Dr Carina Hart is Assistant Professor in literature at the University of Nottingham (UK). She has previously worked at Middlesex University and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where she began developing a specialism in Southeast Asian Gothic and folkloric literature. She now works on global Gothic folklore and fairy tale literature, ecoGothic and contemporary literature and visual media. Carina has edited a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Gothic Folklore and Fairy Tale’, and coedited an essay collection with Matthew Cheeseman, Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland (Routledge). Her monograph The Gothic Fairy Tale is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.

Payel Dutta Chowdhury

Dr Payel Dutta Chowdhury is Professor and Director, School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at REVA University, Bangalore, India. She specializes in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Memory & Trauma Studies, and Crime Narratives. She takes active interest in the study of folk culture and literature from India’s northeast region. Her published works include Lockdown Diaries: Stories of Unusual Times (2020); Folktales from India’s Northeast (2020); The Nagas: Social and Cultural Identity – Texts and Contexts (2019); The Women of Phoolbari and Other Stories (2019); and Dynamics of Self, Family and Community (2017).

Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the Gothic

The inaugural double event of the Gothic in Asia Association [GAA] organized in cooperation with the National Chengchi University [NCCU] in Taiwan.

Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic

An edited collection on Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic, edited by Li-hsin Hsu, Deimantas Valančiūnas and Katarzyna Ancuta. The collection is planned for submission to the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series.

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The Hundred Secret Senses

The Bonesetter’s Daughter and Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan – These novels add ghostly and gory dimensions to Tan’s trademark plots featuring young, Chinese-American women questing after their family tree and a sense of belonging, negotiating their transnational ethnic identity. (Sarah Olive, Bangor)

Our Violent Ends

These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong. Young adult gothic-adjacent or Asian horror novels, these books retell something of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet story in the “melting-pot” of 1920s Shanghai. The young heirs of opposing Chinese and Russian emigree gangs do battle on city streets and across the foreign concessions. Then a bloody pandemic rages, leaving yet more mutilated corpses in the streets, that might require two dominating fathers ‘both alike in dignity’ and their extended families to cooperate towards a solution before their lucrative rackets collapse. Elements for dystopian and speculative fiction readers too (Sarah Olive, Bangor).

Samantha Landau

Samantha Landau is a Project Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo (Komaba), where she teaches courses focusing on American and Comparative Literature and Culture. Her research primarily concerns women\’s writing, supernatural and Gothic fiction, especially in the works of Shirley Jackson and Emily Dickinson. She also writes on the connections between poetry, culture, and music. She is currently working on a monograph on the Domestic Gothic. In 2019, she organized the international conference “Gothic Spaces” at The University of Tokyo. She is currently principal investigator on “Domestic Spaces in Gothic Literature,” an extended 3-year JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (KAKENHI) and “Ghosts and Outsiders in Gothic Fiction” a 4-year JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists (KAKENHI). She is co-editor of a special issue of Women’s Studies on Emily Dickinson and Music with Gerard Holmes (2021) and has contributed a public-facing lecture on Emily Dickinson and the Gothic to the Emily Dickinson International Society’s online lecture series (2020). Her most recent lecture was on Shirley Jackson, ritual, and contagion in The Haunting of Hill House. In addition to her life as an academic, Samantha has been singing and performing classical music and jazz for over 25 years. She currently studies voice with Professor Takeko Nagashima of Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.

Chiho Nakagawa

Dr Chiho Nakagawa is a Professor at Nara Women’s University in Nara, Japan. Her research interests include American women’s literature, Gothic novels, and more recently, crime fiction. Chiho has published in various international and Japanese journals and contributed book chapters, including “Safe Sex with the Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries” (2011). Her contribution to Asian Gothic lies largely in her discussion of Seishi Yokomizo—who turned her interest into crime fiction—which appeared in Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (2013). She also translated David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to Japanese (2013).