Dr Suvendu Ghatak has recently finished his PhD at the University of Florida, exploring the conjunctures of medical and cultural narratives of malaria in South Asian literature and culture. He has received fellowships from the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, and American Institute of India Studies. He has published or has forthcoming works in Volupté, Synapsis, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, and Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. He is interested at the intersections of the race, medicine, and horror.
Qin Wu is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS), University College London. Her research comparatively examines objects featured in eighteenth-century Chinese Gothic and Victorian Gothic literature. Her current thesis explores and compares representative objects, such as monsters, artificial objects, and natural landscapes, in eighteenth-century Chinese Gothic and Victorian Gothic. She is particularly interested in the concept of “Chinese Gothic” and in the extent to which the terror evoked by these objects is shaped by their cultural contexts.
Brontë Crawford is a PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council via the North West Consortium. Her project explores how contemporary East Asian authors use gothic modes of writing to explore food and consumption as an instrument of negotiating subjectivity in the shadow of colonial power. Her collaborative research into colonialism and commodity studies alongside Professor Gordon Walker has been published in the online journal Geography, and can also be viewed via the website of the Lancaster Black History Group.
Dr Shabnam Ahsan completed her PhD at the University of Hertfordshire and is now a UK-based educator, writer, and researcher of literature, affiliated with the Open Graves, Open Minds (OGOM) research group. Her research examines nineteenth-century and contemporary retellings of South Asian fairytales in English, with a focus on postcolonial and diaspora identities, hybridity, and representations of otherness.
Xiaoxiang Ma is a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast. His research examines Hong Kong horror cinema, with particular attention to how the genre reflects and participates in the construction, transformation, and gradual erosion of Hong Kong identity between the 1980s and the 2000s. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Eutopia Journal at Queen’s University Belfast the link to which can be found below.
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.
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.