Dr Arthit Jiamrattanyoo is Lecturer in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He received a doctoral degree in Southeast Asian history from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2022. His areas of interest include modern Thai and Philippine literature, periodical studies, and affect and sensory studies. He is currently translating Nick Joaquin\’s tropical Gothic tales into Thai and working on a research project on crime and horror ballads in the history of sensationalist mass media in Thailand

Dr Verita Sriratana is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She is former Visiting Research Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund. Her recent publications include “The Land of Smiles, Nazi Chic and Communist Cool: Personality Cult and ‘Democide & Holocaust Indifference’ in Thailand”, as part of Proceedings of the First International Symposium, Identifying and Countering Holocaust Distortion: Lessons For and From Southeast Asia (Never Again Association, 2022), (https://online.fliphtml5.com/zfgnm/rbue/#p=84) and “‘Thailand—A Queer H(e)aven?’ & ‘Queering Misogyny’ in the Contexts of Thai Constitutional Court Ruling against Same-Sex Marriage and the Roe v. Wade Reversal” (https://prachatai.com/english/node/9916). Her forthcoming works include a research article entitled \”I Burn (Marx’s) Paris: \’Capital\’ Cities, Alienation & Deconstruction in the Works of Bruno Jasieński\”, published in the Temporalities of Modernism Center of European Modernist Studies Volume (La Casa editrice universitaria Ledizioni).

Agnethe Bennedsgaard is a PhD Student in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark, working on a project called \”NeoGothic queer in contemporary LatinAsian literature.\” The project aims to develop and investigate how a new neogothic genre hybrid is forming across contemporary Latin American and East Asian literature. The hybrid challenges both physical boundaries of the world as well as boundaries of traditional literary genre conventions such as the Gothic.

Dr Tanima Kumari completed her M.A. (English) from Banaras Hindu University and PhD from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Presently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, C.M. College, Darbhanga, under Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga, India. Her articles have been published in many international journals, including journals indexed in Thomson Reuters and Scopus databases. She has also presented many research papers at national and international conferences, including Oxford University, U.K. Her areas of specialization are African-American Poetry, Gender Studies, Indian English Poetry, Literary Theory, Indian Theatre, and Postcolonial Studies.

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Dr Somdatta Bhattacharya has a PhD in English Studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. In the past, she has also taught at institutions such as the University of Hyderabad and BITS Pilani, India. Her research interests are rooted in areas of urban cultures, crime fiction, social theories of space and spatiality, crime and city in literature, Indian writing in English, gender and South Asian popular culture, and she has taught, published, presented and supervised extensively in these areas. She has also been an investigator in multiple government and privately funded projects on the Indian urban underclass and their usage of urban space.

Soumyarup Bhattacharjee is presently a doctoral research scholar and teaching assistant at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, India. His current research is centred on transcultural and transmedial approaches to contemporary gothic literature in South and South East Asia. Previously he has worked as a ‘Guest Lecturer’ at the Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata. His other areas of interest include adaptation studies, postcolonial Indian writing, and contemporary horror literature/films.

Selki Noh is a Master\’s student at Korea University in South Korea, pursuing a degree in modern Japanese literature. Her Master\’s thesis focuses on Jun Eto\’s literary criticism, which stems from his Pro-US patriotism, and contrasts it with the works of Kenzaburō Ōe. Selki plans to expand her research interests beyond her MA studies to include Asian Gothic themes in media and literature.

Dr Debaditya Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor of English at Manikchak College, affiliated with the University of Gourbanga, India. He has done his doctoral research on Anglo-American spy fiction. His research articles on various Indian and Hollywood film adaptations have been published in peer-reviewed and UGC listed journals published from India. He has contributed chapters to collections published by Salem Press, McFarland, Edward Elgar Publishing, Routledge, Peter Lang, Bloomsbury, and Lexington Books. His chapters on Vampire Comedy series What We Do in the Shadows, Indian Horror-Comics series TNT: City of Sorrows, and Badal Sircar’s Comic-Gothic play Ballabhpurer Roopkatha have been published in edited collections from McFarland press, Routledge, Claremont Press, and Partridge Publishing respectively.

Anshuman Bora is an Assistant Professor of English at Debraj Roy College, Golaghat in Assam, India. His research interest include South Asian Literature, Decolonial Studies and Life Writing. He is engaged in doctoral research on the interface between Posthumanist Life Writing and Assamese Rebel Narratives.

Dr Enakshi Samarawickrama is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. She is interested in researching portrayals of gender in crime fiction, the power dynamics at play between femininities and masculinities and the concepts of female victimhood, violence, and agency.