Sarah Olive

Dr Sarah Olive is a Senior Lecturer in English, Languages, and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. She researches and teaches at the intersections of children\’s and young adult literature, Shakespeare, and education. Recent publications include a guest edited issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on \’Hot Shakespeare, Cool Japan\’ (110.1) and a co-authored article \’Secondary Shakespeare in the UK: pedagogies and practices\’ in Changing English with Victoria Elliott (both 2023). Her books include Shakespeare in East Asia Education co-authored with Kohei Uchimaru, Adele Lee and Rosalind Fielding (Palgrave 2021), as well as Shakespeare Valued: Education Policy and Practice, 1989-2009 (Intellect 2015). She is Lead Editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Jeunesse: young people, texts, cultures (University of Toronto Press) and Founding Editor of the British Shakespeare Association\’s Teaching Shakespeare. In 2018, she co-ran the Gothic in Japan conference with Dr Alex Watson (Meiji), resulting in the collaborative creation of an online resource on British Gothic monsters in East Asian culture that reflects and enriches her own teaching.

Li-hsin Hsu

Dr Li-hsin Hsu is Professor of English at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Her research interests include Emily Dickinson studies, Romanticism, Transatlantic studies, Transpacific studies, Orientalism, and Ecocriticism. She has guest-edited journal issues on transculture-related topics, including a special issue on “Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations: 1776 to the Present” for The Wenshan Review (June 2018), and a special issue on “International Dickinson: Scholarship in English Translation” for The Emily Dickinson Journal (Fall 2020). She has also contributed to a number of international journals and edited volumes, such as Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750-1918 (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class, Empire (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming), on topics related to space and race. She is currently guest-editing a special issue on “EcoGothic Asia” for the SARE journal and co-editing a special issue on “Asian Gothic” for The Wenshan Review (with Katarzyna Ancuta).

Katarzyna Ancuta

Dr Katarzyna Ancuta is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror, currently with a strong Asian focus. Katarzyna is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her most recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017), B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-First-Century Gothic (2019), Suicide and the Gothic (2019), Gothic and the Arts (2019) and The New Urban Gothic (2020). Katarzyna co-edited three special journal issues on Thai and Southeast Asian horror film and Tropical Gothic, and two edited collections: Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018, with Mary J. Ainslie) and South Asian Gothic (2021, with Deimantas Valanciunas). She is currently co-editing a similar volume on Southeast Asian Gothic (with Mary J. Ainslie and Andrew Hock Soon Ng) and a journal special issue on Asian Gothic (with Hsu Li-hsin).