Dr Carina Hart is Assistant Professor in literature at the University of Nottingham (UK). She has previously worked at Middlesex University and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where she began developing a specialism in Southeast Asian Gothic and folkloric literature. She now works on global Gothic folklore and fairy tale literature, ecoGothic and contemporary literature and visual media. Carina has edited a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Gothic Folklore and Fairy Tale’, and coedited an essay collection with Matthew Cheeseman, Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland (Routledge). Her monograph The Gothic Fairy Tale is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.