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.
Dr Min-tser Lin is Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan City, Taiwan. His interest in Gothic Studies started with the \”traditional\” 18th-century British Gothic Novels. Then he moved on to the 19th-century Anglo-American vampire narratives and ghost stories. Contemporary American vampire narratives and Taiwan horror movies are pretty recent additions to his research interests.
Dr Aparajita Hazra is Dean of Arts and Professor in the Department of English in Diamond Harbour Women’s University, West Bengal, India. A gold medallist and a National Scholar, she has also acted as Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies and the Director of the Centre for Foreign Language Studies in SKB University, India. She has been widely published and has presented papers widely in India, France, New Zealand, Macau, Malaysia, Canada, Ireland, Georgia and Scotland. She has authored The Terrible Beauty, Her Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Brontes: A Sorority of Passion, Marlowe, The Muse’s Darling and The Art of Articulation from Macmillan Publishers. An Anthology on the Gothic is on the way. She is the recipient of the Noble Asian Educational Leader Award, 2020, the Asian Education Award 2021, the National Faculty Award for 2021-22.
Dr Carina Hart is Assistant Professor in literature at the University of Nottingham (UK). She has previously worked at Middlesex University and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, where she began developing a specialism in Southeast Asian Gothic and folkloric literature. She now works on global Gothic folklore and fairy tale literature, ecoGothic and contemporary literature and visual media. Carina has edited a special issue of Gothic Studies on ‘Gothic Folklore and Fairy Tale’, and coedited an essay collection with Matthew Cheeseman, Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland (Routledge). Her monograph The Gothic Fairy Tale is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.
Dr Payel Dutta Chowdhury is Professor and Director, School of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at REVA University, Bangalore, India. She specializes in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Memory & Trauma Studies, and Crime Narratives. She takes active interest in the study of folk culture and literature from India’s northeast region. Her published works include Lockdown Diaries: Stories of Unusual Times (2020); Folktales from India’s Northeast (2020); The Nagas: Social and Cultural Identity – Texts and Contexts (2019); The Women of Phoolbari and Other Stories (2019); and Dynamics of Self, Family and Community (2017).
Dr Sarah Olive is a Senior Lecturer in English, Languages, and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. She researches and teaches at the intersections of children\’s and young adult literature, Shakespeare, and education. Recent publications include a guest edited issue of Cahiers Élisabéthains on \’Hot Shakespeare, Cool Japan\’ (110.1) and a co-authored article \’Secondary Shakespeare in the UK: pedagogies and practices\’ in Changing English with Victoria Elliott (both 2023). Her books include Shakespeare in East Asia Education co-authored with Kohei Uchimaru, Adele Lee and Rosalind Fielding (Palgrave 2021), as well as Shakespeare Valued: Education Policy and Practice, 1989-2009 (Intellect 2015). She is Lead Editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Jeunesse: young people, texts, cultures (University of Toronto Press) and Founding Editor of the British Shakespeare Association\’s Teaching Shakespeare. In 2018, she co-ran the Gothic in Japan conference with Dr Alex Watson (Meiji), resulting in the collaborative creation of an online resource on British Gothic monsters in East Asian culture that reflects and enriches her own teaching.