Xiaoxiang Ma is a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. His research examines Hong Kong horror cinema, with particular attention to how the genre reflects and participates in the construction, transformation, and gradual erosion of Hong Kong identity between the 1980s and the 2000s. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Eutopia Journal at Queen’s University Belfast the link to which can be found below.

https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/eutopiajournal/author/eutopiajournal/

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.

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 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.

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.