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.
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Dipyaman Bhowmick
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.
Thomas Duggett

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.
Geneve Flynn
Geneve Flynn is a speculative fiction editor, author, and poet. Winner of two Bram Stoker Awards, and the Shirley Jackson, Australasian Shadows, and Aurealis awards; recipient of the 2022 Queensland Writers Fellowship. Her work has been short/longlisted for the British Fantasy, Locus, Carl Brandon Parallax, and Elgin awards. Co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, the dark fiction anthology which launched a grassroots movement in Asian women’s horror writing. Her work has been published by Weird Tales, PS Publishing, Flame Tree Publishing, PseudoPod, among others. She is Chinese, born in Malaysia, and now calls Australia home. Her research interest is in contemporary Asian female Gothic literature, diasporic narratives, and the East-Asian four-act structure.
Read more at http://www.geneveflynn.com.au.
Kanupriya Pandey
Kanupriya Pandey is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India. Her doctoral research focuses on Ecogothic readings of contemporary South Asian coastal literature, exploring the intersection of environmental violence, political trauma, and narrative form. Her broader research interests include eco-horror, eco-anxiety, blue humanities, and film studies.
Supernatural animals, mystical beasts, and uncanny creatures: Folklore in place
Supernatural animals, mystical beasts, and uncanny creatures: Folklore in place
Animals and animal-like beings are prominent in folklore around the globe, and they play an important role in how people view and know the world. Individuals may be frightened, awed, amused, killed, assisted, forewarned, or rescued through their encounters with mysterious creatures. These creatures may be ordinary animals imbued with powers beyond human comprehension, ghosts of animals, shapeshifting humans or spirits, powerful deities, or categories of supernatural beings in their own right. Stories of supernatural animals occur not just in first-person experience narratives but also in legends that help root a sense of local community and in mythical tales that contribute to constructing the nation.III International Gothic Conference
(Un)natural Horror: Eco, Bio, and Techno Encounters in Gothic Landscapes
8-10 December, University of Costa Rica
For more information please read the original CFP below.



IGA Hull 2026
‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’, University of Hull, UK (28-31 July, 2026)
Once speculative, artificial intelligence now haunts contemporary society, with public discourse around its application and scope ranging from the utopian to the apocalyptic. The Gothic’s fascination with doubles, simulacra, uncanny agency, and other forms of otherness offers rich tools for examining the anxieties and crucial ethical dilemmas provoked by AI. The Gothic has long been preoccupied with the unstable boundaries between the natural and the artificial, as well as between individual subjectivity and the sublime terror of being subsumed into larger networks of terrible knowledge. From Shelley’s Frankenstein and Hoffmann’s Olympia in ‘The Sandman’, through Freud’s notion of the uncanny and the development of posthumanist thinking, the concept of artificial beings has raised profound anxieties about what it means to be human. Today, these concerns have become newly urgent in the age of generative AI, where the promise of creativity and connection is shadowed by questions of exploitation, environmental cost, and the erosion of individuality.
‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’ invites scholars and practitioners to explore the intersections of Gothic literature, culture, and theory with artificial intelligences, automated creativity, and posthuman forms of subjectivity. This conference seeks work that is intellectually rigorous and experimentally open, engaging with both classic Gothic texts and contemporary manifestations of the Gothic imagination across media. We invite participants from in and outside the arts and humanities to respond to the theme and intend the conference to have a truly interdisciplinary ethos.
We invite the submission of abstracts that explore the theme of ‘Gothic Selves/Artificial Others’. We welcome proposed panels of three related papers. Proposals might consider AI as a lens for Gothic subjectivity, the Gothic in AI-generated texts, or the ethical and aesthetic implications of artificial others in Gothic texts and contexts.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Doubles, doppelgängers, and AI analogues
- Artificial creativity and the Gothic imagination
- Gothic ethics and AI decision-making
- AI, disability, and the Gothic
- Gothic ecologies and AI
- Human/machine boundaries and Gothic subjectivity
- Gothic hauntings in digital media
- Automata, robots, and other uncanny others
- Generative AI and Gothic aesthetics
- Posthuman and cyborg Gothic
- Gothic constructions of consciousness
- Ethics, horror, and the uncanny in AI
- The Gothic sublime and artificial intelligence
- Surveillance, Paranoia, and the Gothic
- Queering AI and Gothic identity
- Deconstructing human/AI binaries in Gothic narratives
- Digital narratives and the Gothic
- Cognitive studies, neuroscience, and the Gothic
- Gothic destabilization of somatopsychic boundaries
- Technology, Labour, and the Gothic
- Gothicizing digital humanities
- Gothic, Affectivity, and Embodiment
Please submit a 250-word abstract by 30 January 2026 to IGAHull2026@hull.ac.uk, including your name, a short biography, affiliation (if any), and contact details. Please send your submission as an attachment (as opposed to a link to a server such as Google Docs). Submissions for panels should be sent as a single submission with three 250-word abstracts, a brief statement of the theme of the panel and the information above about each of the presenters.
Conference website can be accessed here.
Priyank Jain
Priyank Jain is a PhD Scholar at the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). His primary research area is Indian Postcolonial Gothic. He has published research articles in Q1 Journals and has presented papers in numerous international seminars. He was awarded the “Best International Student Program” Award, ATS-UKM 2024. He has also edited an anthology of short stories on Indian Gothic titled “Gothic of the Hidden Indian Corners”. He also has experience of teaching Literature and Communication subjects in various universities. He is an avid reader, and part of various book clubs.













