Gothic in Asia Association is run by a group of international researchers interested in gothic themes present in literature, film and other media. Meet the members of GAA Founding Committee and the scholars who work with us.
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GAA Committee
Chiho Nakagawa
Dr Chiho Nakagawa is an Associate Professor at Nara Women’s University in Nara, Japan.
Katarzyna Ancuta
Dr Katarzyna Ancuta is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
Li-hsin Hsu
Dr Li-hsin Hsu is Associate Professor of English at National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Samantha Landau
Samantha Landau is a Project Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo
GAA Members
Agnethe Bennedsgaard
Agnethe Bennedsgaard is a PhD Student in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Ananya Roy
Ananya Roy has completed her masters in English Literature from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India.
Anshuman Bora
Anshuman Bora is an Assistant Professor of English at Debraj Roy College, Golaghat in Assam, India.
Aparajita Hazra
Dr Aparajita Hazra is Dean of Arts and Professor in the Department of English in Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal, India.
Arthit Jiamrattanyoo
Dr Arthit Jiamrattanyoo is Lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Carina Hart
Dr Carina Hart is Assistant Professor in literature at the University of Nottingham (UK).
Debaditya Mukhopadhyay
Dr Debaditya Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor of English at Manikchak College, affiliated with the University of Gourbanga, India.
Devaleena Kundu
Dr Devaleena Kundu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India.
Enakshi Samarawickrama
Dr Enakshi Samarawickrama is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham Malaysia.
Ffion Davies
Ffion Davies is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong.
Henry Bartholomew
Dr Henry Bartholomew is a lecturer in the Department of Literary and Translation studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China.
Isaraporn Pissa-ard
Dr Isaraporn Pissa-ard teaches undergraduate courses in world literature, mythology and folklore, and translation at Chiang Mai University, Thailand.
Ivan Stacy
Dr Ivan Stacy is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University.
Jenevieve Van-Veda
Jenevieve Van-Veda is a PhD student studying Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK.
Kathleen Shaughnessy
Kathleen Shaughnessy is a fifth-year PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa, USA.
Leonie Rowland
Leonie Rowland is a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK)
Lindsay Nelson
Dr Lindsay Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University in Japan.
Meheli Sen
Dr Meheli Sen is Associate Professor in the department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Cinema Studies program at Rutgers University, USA.
Min-tser Lin
Dr Min-tser Lin is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan City, Taiwan.
Payel Dutta Chowdhury
Dr Payel Dutta Chowdhury is Professor and Director, School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at REVA University, Bangalore, India.
Raiden Montero
Raiden Montero is currently finishing his MA in Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).
Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis
Dr Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.
Ruth Heholt
Dr Ruth Heholt is Associate Professor of Dark Economies and Gothic literature at Falmouth University, UK.
Sarah Olive
Dr Sarah Olive is a Senior Lecturer in English, Languages, and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
Sarunas Paunksnis
Dr Sarunas Paunksnis is Professor in Digital Culture at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania.
Somdatta Bhattacharya
Dr Somdatta Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India.
Soumyarup Bhattacharjee
Soumyarup Bhattacharjee is a doctoral research scholar and teaching assistant at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, India.
Suleyman Bolukbas
Suleyman Bolukbas is a second year dual-title Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Sylvia Sagolsem
Dr Sylvia Sagolsem is an Independent Researcher and former Assistant Professor of English Literature at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi, India.
Tanima Kumari
Dr Tanima Kumari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, C.M. College, Darbhanga, under Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, India.
Thomas Leonard Shaw
Thomas Leonard Shaw is a queer, liminal poet-theorist and a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, UP Diliman, Philippines.
Verita Sriratana
Dr Verita Sriratana is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Wynona Villa
Wynona Villa is currently working on her Master’s degree in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines.
Special Thanks
We would like to thank Katherine Smith (University of York, UK) for her invaluable help with creating the website. We are also much indebted to Solarsin Ngoenwichit who designed the logo for our organisation.