Dr Robert Yeates is Associate Professor of American Literature at Okayama University, Japan. He is the author of American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (UCL Press, 2021) and has published articles in journals including Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Science Fiction Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. More information can be found at robertyeates.wordpress.com.

Debadrita Saha is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Ashoka University, India, specialising in Gothic literature, film criticism, South Asian studies, and gender studies. Her work bridges Gothic studies with postcolonial and feminist literary criticism, offering fresh perspectives on Gothic traditions in Asian literature, particularly Bengali literary narratives. Debadrita has contributed significantly to Gothic scholarship through her analysis of female Gothic in the Sinister House of Secret Love series and Gothic elements in nineteenth-century Orientalist fiction. Her conference presentations include “Mapping the reimagination of the ‘travelling Heroine’ of Female Gothic” at the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference and “The Gothic Castle as a Restraining Space for Unbridled Female Sexuality” at MAPACA, demonstrating her expertise in Gothic literary criticism. Currently serving on the Editorial Board of The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (Demeter Press), Debadrita was formerly an Assistant Professor of English at Brainware University. Debadrita’s essays have been published in peer-reviewed journals like Rejoinder (Rutgers University), Genre en séries (OpenEditions), and The Journal of Intercultural Studies (Taylor & Francis). Her essay on consent and coercion in medieval Bengali literature was published in an edited volume titled Reconsidering Consent and Coercion in Medieval Literature by Brepols in June 2025.