Raiden Montero is an International Recruitment Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (USA). He is also a doctoral student at Concordia University Wisconsin (USA) and holds an MA in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). His research interests center around Horror Studies, political film readings, vengeful female ghosts, feminist film theory, Folk Horror, and Urban Horror. His geographic areas of interest are Southeast Asia (specifically Thailand) and East Asia (specifically Japan, Korea, and Taiwan).
Dr Sylvia Sagolsem is an Independent Researcher and former Assistant Professor of English Literature at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. from Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2019). Her research interests include Folktale and Fairy Tale Studies, Folklore and Digital Cultures, Oral Literatures, Literatures of Northeast India, and Hallyu Studies. Her forthcoming publications include two book chapters, “Hallyu 2.0 and social media in Manipur: Examining Cultural Formation through User Generated Content” (Palgrave/Springer) and “Phungawari in the Digital Age: Folkloric expressions and new media” (Routledge).
Aqsa Eram is a doctoral research scholar at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow, India. Her research focuses on a postcolonial approach to Gothic in colonial writings. Her areas of interest also include contemporary horror, Indian literature in English and studies in Popular fiction.
Suleyman Bolukbas is a second year dual-title Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Originally from Turkey, his research focuses on comparative analysis of Turkish literature, gender and sexuality studies in literature and culture, and queer and gothic studies. In 2022, he became the Assistant Editor of Women, Gender, and Families of Color (WGFC). He is interested in queer readings of the gothic as an international and global phenomenon. His research particularly revolves around the global circulation of gothic narratives in relation to local identities, cultures, nations and how gothic\’s queerness is reshaped by them.
Ffion Davies is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong researching deviant masculinities and the figure of the homme fatal in early twentieth-century American crime fiction. She was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2020 and served as an assistant editor of Crime Fiction Studies between 2021 and 2023. She is particularly interested in studying subversive gender representation through Crime and Horror narratives of the twentieth century.
Leonie Rowland is a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), where she researches Japanese Gothic in the age of animist capitalism. Her research interests include Japanese Gothic, Japanese horror, Asian Gothic, socioeconomics, capitalist realism, literature and film
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.