Dr Chawarote Valyamedhi is a full-time Assistant Professor at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He holds PhD in Thai Dance, MA in Sanskrit, BFA in Music from Chulalongkorn University, Certificate in Japanese Culture and Language from Ryukoku University and Senshu University, Japan, and Certificate in Chinese Language and Culture from National Taiwan University. His research interests include connection between performing arts and literature, performing arts and beliefs, world performing arts, cultural history and intellectual history of dance. From July 2018 Chawarote is a visiting fellow at Taipei National University of the Arts. He has experience as lecturer at Thammasat University, Assumption University of Thailand, and as an adjunct faculty at Chulalongkorn University, Webster University Thailand, and Taipei National University of the Arts. He has served as a full-time faculty at National Chengchi University since 2021.
The New York Times bestselling author, Chloe Gong, is one of the most exciting voices in Fantasy novels and she takes inspiration from Shakespeare. Her ‘Secret Shanghai’ series was a YA Fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet and she has just adapted Antony & Cleopatra for her Adult Fantasy trilogy, ‘Flesh and False Gods’. In Gong’s hands, Shakespeare’s women characters have become forces to reckon with.
14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025)
Dr Manuel Herrero-Puertas is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taiwan, where he teaches courses on early and nineteenth-century American literature and disability studies. He writes on the intersection of literature, discourses of disability, and political fantasy. His work has appeared in American Quarterly, ATLANTIS, Concentric, The Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, and Poe Studies: History, Theory, and Interpretation. He is currently working on two projects. The first one argues for a non-psychoanalytic engagement with the transatlantic gothic, making a case instead for the genre’s accessible materiality and latent crip politics. The second project undertakes a cognitive study of the U.S. frontier in its historical, historiographical, and fictional manifestations as a locus of compulsory distraction and undisciplined attention.
Kristopher Woofter, PhD, is a faculty member in the English Department at Dawson College, in Tio\’tia:ke (Montréal, Québec). He edits the peer-reviewed journal Monstrum, and is Co-founder of the Montréal Monstrum Society. He is a 2021 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction for Shirley Jackson: A Companion (2021). He also co-edited American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper with Will Dodson (2021). He has recently written on Nosferatu (2022), the documentary thought-experiment film Into Eternity (with Mikaela Bobiy, 2022), and Jack Arnold\’s The Incredible Shrinking Man (forthcoming). His forthcoming projects as co-editor include The Weird: A Companion (fall 2024, with Carl Sederholm), The Routledge Companion to Horror (with Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, and Roger Luckhurst), and The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson (with Emily Banks). Kristopher is series co-editor (with Erin Giannini) of B-TV: Horror Television Under the Critical Radar for Bloomsbury, and an editorial board member for Horror and Gothic Media Cultures (Amsterdam UP).
Farah Alavi, a literature graduate from Sharda University, India, has a deep passion for classical literature, Gothic tales, and mythical folklore. Her recent research paper, titled \”Unveiling the Dark: An Exploration of Gothic Elements in Bram Stoker\’s Dracula and Its Cinematic Transformation,\” delves into the eerie and captivating world of Gothic fiction. Farah\’s work not only sheds light on the dark themes within Stoker\’s iconic novel but also examines how these elements have been transformed and reimagined in film. Her insightful analysis brings a fresh perspective to the timeless allure of Gothic storytelling.
Raiden Montero