Dr Manuel Herrero-Puertas is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, where he teaches courses on early and nineteenth-century American literature and disability studies. He writes on the intersection of literature, discourses of disability, and political fantasy. His work has appeared in American Quarterly, ATLANTIS, Concentric, The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, and Poe Studies: History, Theory, and Interpretation. He is currently working on two projects. The first one argues for a non-psychoanalytic engagement with the transatlantic gothic, making a case instead for the genre’s accessible materiality and latent crip politics. The second project undertakes a cognitive study of the U.S. frontier in its historical, historiographical, and fictional manifestations as a locus of compulsory distraction and undisciplined attention.
Kristopher Woofter, PhD, is a faculty member in the English Department at Dawson College, in Tio\’tia:ke (Montréal, Québec). He edits the peer-reviewed journal Monstrum, and is Co-founder of the Montréal Monstrum Society. He is a 2021 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction for Shirley Jackson: A Companion (2021). He also co-edited American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper with Will Dodson (2021). He has recently written on Nosferatu (2022), the documentary thought-experiment film Into Eternity (with Mikaela Bobiy, 2022), and Jack Arnold\’s The Incredible Shrinking Man (forthcoming). His forthcoming projects as co-editor include The Weird: A Companion (fall 2024, with Carl Sederholm), The Routledge Companion to Horror (with Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, and Roger Luckhurst), and The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson (with Emily Banks). Kristopher is series co-editor (with Erin Giannini) of B-TV: Horror Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury, and an editorial board member for Horror and Gothic Media Cultures (Amsterdam UP).![\"\"](\"https://gothicinasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/34808638446_b33eedbab6_o.jpg\")
As part of an edited collection, we are seeking proposals for a volume on Underground Creatures, which will form part of the Transmedia Monsters and Villains series with Lexington Press. This new series aims to cover the fascinating subject of monsters and villains through an interdisciplinary perspective represented by fields as different as literary, film, religious, gender and art studies as much as philosophy and sociological and ecocritical approaches. Each volume will focus on a single figure (or group of figures) and examine it in its multiple incarnations, from their origins in myth, folklore and history as well as in a literary text, to their various adaptations in different media, including comics, graphic novels, cinema, TV, exhibitions, the visual arts, merchandise and tourist attractions. Most welcome will also be an approach to the subject that transcends genres and thus examine the single monsters and villains as they are presented in horror fiction, thriller, science fiction, etc.