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 research scholar specializing in horror literature based at Pachaiyappa’s College, University of Madras, 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 
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.
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.
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.