Contributors

Fred Botting is professor of English at Kingston University. He has written extensively on gothic fiction and literary theory and published the monographs Gothic, Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic, and Gothic Romanced: Consumption, Gender, and Technology in Contemporary Fictions.

Timothy Clark is professor emeritus of English at the University of Durham. His most recent books are Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept and The Value of Ecocriticism.

Rebecca Duncan is research fellow at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and coordinator of the research cluster Aesthetics of Empire. She is author of South African Gothic: Anxiety and Creative Dissent in the Post-apartheid Imagination and Beyond and coeditor of Patrick McGrath and His Worlds: Madness and the Transnational Gothic.

Justin D. Edwards is professor of English and chair in gothic studies at the University of Stirling. He is coauthor of Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality, and Innovative Travel Writing and Grotesque; editor of Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics; and coeditor of Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas and B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives.

Michael Fuchs is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oldenburg in Germany. He is coeditor of six books, most recently Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.

Rune Graulund is associate professor in American literature and culture at the Center for American Studies and director of the research cluster Anthropocene Aesthetics at the University of Southern Denmark. He is coauthor of Grotesque and Mobility at Large: Globalization, Textuality, and Innovative Travel Writing.

Johan Höglund is professor of English at Linnaeus University. He is author of The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence and coeditor of Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History, and Criticism; B-Movie Gothic: International Perspectives; and Nordic Gothic.

Esthie Hugo is associate lecturer in English at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Dawn Keetley is professor of English and film at Lehigh University. She is author of Making a Monster: Jesse Pomeroy, the Boy Murderer of 1870s Boston and editor of Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror. She has edited and coedited collections on The Walking Dead and is also coeditor of Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and Film and Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Laura R. Kremmel is assistant professor of English at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is coeditor of The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature and author of Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies.

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They are author of All Art Is Ecological, Spacecraft, and Hyperobjects (Minnesota, 2013) and coauthor of Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human.

Barry Murnane is associate professor of German studies at the University of Oxford and fellow in German at St. John’s College. He is author of “Verkehr mit Gespenstern”: Gothic und Moderne bei Franz Kafka and coeditor of collections on German gothic, including Populäre Erscheinungen: Der deutsche Schauerroman um 1800 and Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800–2000.

Jennifer Schell is professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is author of “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen.

Lisa M. Vetere is associate professor of English at Monmouth University. Her writing was published in the collection The Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.

Sara Wasson is reader in gothic studies at Lancaster University. She is author of Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine and Urban Gothic of the Second World War: Dark London.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University and associate editor for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. His books include Giving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema, The Monster Theory Reader (Minnesota, 2019), and The Age of Lovecraft (Minnesota, 2016).