Dr Tori Eliott is a Visiting Professor of English Studies at Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. Her  research investigates the interaction between science and the Gothic, focusing particularly on Scottish Gothic.

Dipyaman Bhowmick is an MA student in English at Jadavpur University, India. His research interests include Gothic studies, environmental humanities, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, and film studies. He has presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences, including recent papers on Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826) and on the Hindi-language Bollywood film “Bulbbul” (2020) through an eco-gothic lens. Dipyaman’s article “Reading Toru Dutt as a ‘Romantic’ Urban Nature Poet,” on the nineteenth-century Bengali poet Toru Dutt, was published in the online forum of the Journal of Victorian Culture. His article, “Ann Radcliffe’s Environmental Novels: “A Sicilian Romance” (1790) and “The Italian” (1796),” which examines some of Ann Radcliffe’s novels through an eco-feminist lens, recently appeared in the fourth volume of the peer-reviewed journal Sophia Luminous. His book review of John MacNeill Miller’s “The Ecological Plot” can be found in The Victorian Web. He also takes a lively interest in writing fiction, and his flash fiction “Midnight’s Soliloquy” came out in The Criterion: An International Journal in English. Dipyaman runs a Nineteenth-Century Reading Circle (NCRC) with some of his colleagues in the Department of English at Jadavpur University, where they host talks from speakers from around the world.

Dr Thomas Duggett is a Senior Associate Professor in English Literature at Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University, China. He is a historian of literature, specializing in the British Romantic period, and working primarily on Wordsworth and Coleridge, their influences and legacies. His book on Wordsworth and the ‘Recluse’ project, Gothic Romanticism (Palgrave USA, 2010), was awarded the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and has recently been republished in an expanded second edition. His work has appeared in ‘Romanticism’, ‘The Wordsworth Circle’, ‘Review of English Studies’, ‘English’, and other journals, and he has also contributed chapters in major edited volumes including The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022), The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose (2024), The Cambridge History of the Gothic’ (2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism (2020). Current projects include a scholarly edition of Ann Radcliffe’s breakthrough third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791) for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe (8 vols., 2025-28), and a monograph on the Lake Poets and the English idea of history.