Samantha Landau is a Project Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo (Komaba), where she teaches courses focusing on American and Comparative Literature and Culture. Her research primarily concerns women\’s writing, supernatural and Gothic fiction, especially in the works of Shirley Jackson and Emily Dickinson. She also writes on the connections between poetry, culture, and music. She is currently working on a monograph on the Domestic Gothic. In 2019, she organized the international conference “Gothic Spaces” at The University of Tokyo. She is currently principal investigator on “Domestic Spaces in Gothic Literature,” an extended 3-year JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (KAKENHI) and “Ghosts and Outsiders in Gothic Fiction” a 4-year JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists (KAKENHI). She is co-editor of a special issue of Women’s Studies on Emily Dickinson and Music with Gerard Holmes (2021) and has contributed a public-facing lecture on Emily Dickinson and the Gothic to the Emily Dickinson International Society’s online lecture series (2020). Her most recent lecture was on Shirley Jackson, ritual, and contagion in The Haunting of Hill House. In addition to her life as an academic, Samantha has been singing and performing classical music and jazz for over 25 years. She currently studies voice with Professor Takeko Nagashima of Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.

Dr Chiho Nakagawa is a Professor at Nara Women’s University in Nara, Japan. Her research interests include American women’s literature, Gothic novels, and more recently, crime fiction. Chiho has published in various international and Japanese journals and contributed book chapters, including “Safe Sex with the Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries” (2011). Her contribution to Asian Gothic lies largely in her discussion of Seishi Yokomizo—who turned her interest into crime fiction—which appeared in Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (2013). She also translated David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to Japanese (2013).

Dr Li-hsin Hsu is Professor of English at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Her research interests include Emily Dickinson studies, Romanticism, Transatlantic studies, Transpacific studies, Orientalism, and Ecocriticism. She has guest-edited journal issues on transculture-related topics, including a special issue on “Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations: 1776 to the Present” for The Wenshan Review (June 2018), and a special issue on “International Dickinson: Scholarship in English Translation” for The Emily Dickinson Journal (Fall 2020). She has also contributed to a number of international journals and edited volumes, such as Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums: 1750-1918 (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Romantic Environmental Sensibility: Nature, Class, Empire (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming), on topics related to space and race. She is currently guest-editing a special issue on “EcoGothic Asia” for the SARE journal and co-editing a special issue on “Asian Gothic” for The Wenshan Review (with Katarzyna Ancuta).

Dr Katarzyna Ancuta is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror, currently with a strong Asian focus. Katarzyna is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her most recent publications include contributions to The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017), B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-First-Century Gothic (2019), Suicide and the Gothic (2019), Gothic and the Arts (2019) and The New Urban Gothic (2020). Katarzyna co-edited three special journal issues on Thai and Southeast Asian horror film and Tropical Gothic, and two edited collections: Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018, with Mary J. Ainslie) and South Asian Gothic (2021, with Deimantas Valanciunas). She is currently co-editing a similar volume on Southeast Asian Gothic (with Mary J. Ainslie and Andrew Hock Soon Ng) and a journal special issue on Asian Gothic (with Hsu Li-hsin).