Thomas Leonard Shaw is a queer, liminal poet-theorist and a faculty member at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, UP Diliman. His latest publication is an essay on the representation of Siargao and islandic space in several chosen films, published in Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia (Springer). Thomas has several upcoming publications on Philippine gothic literature and Philippine horror cinema. His research interests include but are not limited to: gothic and horror studies, memory studies, and Philippine literature.
Dr Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Her academic interests include gender, caste, media representations and subaltern literature. Her scholarly articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals including South Asian Popular Culture and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and in several edited book collections. She co-edited Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). She was awarded a fellowship for a collaborative research project Manly Matters, granted by the Humboldt Foundation, Germany and she was also a Visiting Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has participated in Erasmus + teaching programmes. She is a member of COST Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) project. Runa is a creative writer and translator. Her translated stories have been published by Orient Blackswan and Sahitya Akademi, Delhi.
Dr Sarunas Paunksnis is Professor in Digital Culture, Communication and Media Research Group, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania. His current research interests include new media, Indian cinema, posthumanism, digital humanities, science and technology studies, cultural theory, postcolonial theory. A Fulbright and Chevening alumnus, he did research at Columbia University, New York, SOAS, University of London as well as at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India on numerous occasions. He is an editor of \”Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance\” (Brill, 2016), an author of \”Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India\” (Oxford University Press, 2019), and a co-editor of \”Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms: Shifting Frames in Neoliberal India\” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Dr Lindsay Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Meiji University in Japan. Her work has appeared in Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, and Japanese Studies. She is the author of Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media (Lexington Books, 2021). Her full CV can be found at 
Jenevieve Van-Veda is a PhD student studying Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. Focusing on the Gothic idiom within Japan, including the global exchanges and resulting cultural contortions that have developed from this. Research interests include Japanese ghosts, folklore, and the global Gothic imagination. She has presented at numerous conferences, festivals, alternative events, and has been invited as a guest speaker on various podcasts. She has also written a chapter for the Gothic Handbook published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020.
Dr Isaraporn Pissa-ard teaches undergraduate courses in world literature, mythology and folklore, and translation at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Her research interests include Gothic literature and posthumanism, world literature, comparative literature, nature writing, mythology and folklore.
Dr Ivan Stacy is Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University. He is the author of The Complicit Text: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction, published by Lexington in 2021. He has also published articles on Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, China Miéville, and on the American television series The Wire, focusing on his main research interests, which are complicity and the carnivalesque. He has taught in China, Thailand, the UK, Bhutan, Libya, and South Korea.
Dr Arthit Jiamrattanyoo is Lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He received a doctoral degree in Southeast Asian history from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2022. His areas of interest include modern Thai and Philippine literature, periodical studies, and affect and sensory studies. He is currently translating Nick Joaquin\’s tropical Gothic tales into Thai and working on a research project on crime and horror ballads in the history of sensationalist mass media in Thailand
Dr Verita Sriratana is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She is former Visiting Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund. Her recent publications include “The Land of Smiles, Nazi Chic and Communist Cool: Personality Cult and ‘Democide & Holocaust Indifference’ in Thailand”, as part of Proceedings of the First International Symposium, Identifying and Countering Holocaust Distortion: Lessons For and From Southeast Asia (Never Again Association, 2022), (
