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.