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.

Dr Muthu Swamy Nathan M is an Indian researcher currently working as an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English at Kings Engineering College, Chennai, India. His research interests include Gothic studies, trauma theory, myth and folklore in modern fiction, and South Asian horror narratives. Over the past five years, his academic work has focused on exploring the evolution, themes, and socio-psychological dimensions of horror in literature. He pursued this specialization through both MPhil and PhD research, examining how horror functions as a cultural and narrative space that reflects trauma, gender politics, and societal anxieties.

Dr Jan Marvin A. Goh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Santo Tomas, where he previously served as Managing Editor and Editorial Staff Member of UNITAS: Journal of Advanced Research in Literature, Culture, and Society, the oldest extant multidisciplinary journal in the Philippines. He also serves as Archival Research Consultant at the Manuel V. Gallego Center for Heritage Studies. His academic engagements include participation in the Summer School on Streaming Media, Contemporary Society, and Cultural Memory (Jönköping University, 2024–2025), the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School (University of the Philippines, 2024), and the Summer School on Animals in Society (Mälardalen University, 2023). He completed the Executive Course on Research Management (De La Salle University, 2025) and has received several fellowships, including an Art Criticism Fellowship from the Kalaw-Ledesma Foundation (2025), a Literary Studies and Philippine Gothic Fellowship from Kritika La Salle: National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism (2025), an Urban Studies and Cultural Heritage Fellowship from Ateneo de Manila University (2019), and a Translator’s Fellowship from the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (2017). His research appears in the special section “The Politics of Folklore in Asian Gothic” in Manusya: Journal of Humanities and has been presented at numerous local and international conferences, including 45 Years of Jacques Derrida’s “Signature Event Context” (Philippines), Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the Gothic (Taiwan), International Consortium of Critical Theory (South Korea), Critical Island Studies (Indonesia), Captivating Criminality 9: Crime and the Gothic (Thailand), and Romancing the Gothic’s Devils and Justified Sinners (United Kingdom). He is an active member of the Gothic in Asia Association and the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) among others.

Dr Robert Yeates is Associate Professor of American Literature at Okayama University, Japan. He is the author of American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (UCL Press, 2021) and has published articles in journals including Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Science Fiction Studies, and European Journal of Cultural Studies. More information can be found at robertyeates.wordpress.com.

Debadrita Saha is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Ashoka University, India, specialising in Gothic literature, film criticism, South Asian studies, and gender studies. Her work bridges Gothic studies with postcolonial and feminist literary criticism, offering fresh perspectives on Gothic traditions in Asian literature, particularly Bengali literary narratives. Debadrita has contributed significantly to Gothic scholarship through her analysis of female Gothic in the Sinister House of Secret Love series and Gothic elements in nineteenth-century Orientalist fiction. Her conference presentations include “Mapping the reimagination of the ‘travelling Heroine’ of Female Gothic” at the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference and “The Gothic Castle as a Restraining Space for Unbridled Female Sexuality” at MAPACA, demonstrating her expertise in Gothic literary criticism. Currently serving on the Editorial Board of The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (Demeter Press), Debadrita was formerly an Assistant Professor of English at Brainware University. Debadrita’s essays have been published in peer-reviewed journals like Rejoinder (Rutgers University), Genre en séries (OpenEditions), and The Journal of Intercultural Studies (Taylor & Francis). Her essay on consent and coercion in medieval Bengali literature was published in an edited volume titled Reconsidering Consent and Coercion in Medieval Literature by Brepols in June 2025.