Dr Soumyarup Bhattacharjee is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies (formerly the Department of English) at Swami Vivekananda University, India. He was previously a research scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Bombay. His current research focuses on transcultural approaches to contemporary Gothic literature in South and Southeast Asia. His other areas of interest include adaptation studies, postcolonial Asian writing, and contemporary horror literature and film.

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.

Dr Devaleena Kundu is an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India. Former Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, she holds a PhD in English Literature from EFL University, Hyderabad, India. Her research primarily dwells on literary and popular cultural representations of death and dying. She is also interested in the depiction of crime and the criminal investigative eye in popular media.

Kathleen Shaughnessy is a fifth-year PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa, USA. She specializes in intersections between the gothic, science, and crime in 19th century British literature. She is also interested in popular transnational and imperial fiction of the period, as well as neo-Victorian literature and globalgothic studies. Her current dissertation research studies how 19th century scientific innovations and imperial projects helped to form the Gothic monster in fin-de-siècle popular fiction.

Ananya Roy has completed her masters in English Literature from Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, India. Her focus (as an independent research scholar at present) on research is widespread ranging from the renaissance to the modern contemporary literary world, more significantly on gothic, horror, noir, crime, speculative and science fiction(s). Her works have been previously published on e-journals like IJELLH, IJOES, CLRI, IJECLS. Apart from academic articles, she also writes on social issues, winning numerous essay and debate competitions with her pieces being published on magazines like Competition Success Review (CSR) and Pratiyogita Darpan. She has recently self-published her poetry collection Kaleidosocope: Of Women Behind the Curtains (2020) on Notion Press besides her dystopian novel Torque (2018) on Amazon self-publish. Notion Press also published her winning piece in Songs in Isolation: A Collection of Poems (2020). Forever an enthusiast in everything uncanny and unnerving, Ananya would walk the extra mile in search of the multiverse of alternate realities of fiction!

Dr Ruth Heholt is Associate Professor of Dark Economies and Gothic literature at Falmouth University, UK. She is author of Catherine Crowe: Gender, Genre, and Radical Politics (Routledge, 2020) and co-author of Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction (Anthem Press, 2022). She is co-editor of several collections including Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles (2018), and Haunted Landscapes (2017). She has organised international conferences including Folk Horror in the Twentieth Century (Falmouth and Lehigh Universities 2019) and is editor of the peer reviewed journal Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural. Her research interests include Gothic, Gender, Ghost Stories, Masculinity, Crime Fiction, Folk Horror, and Domestic Abuse.

Wynona Villa is currently working on her Master\’s degree in Literary and Cultural Studies at the Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines. Her research interests include Asian Folklore, Horror Studies, Philippine Folk Horror, and Asian Literature.