Acknowledgments

A project of this scope cannot be accomplished without the support of a number of hardworking and generous friends, scholars, administrators, and family members. Among the many to whom we extend our gratitude, we need to mention, in particular, David Ellison, who helped organize the Gothic Extremities workshop where this collection got started, and the International Gothic Association for permitting us to organize conference panels on Gothic in the Anthropocene in Manchester (2018) and Romeoville (2019). At these conferences, we presented some of our early ideas on the subject, and we received valuable feedback that helped and inspired us to push forward with this book. We also want to give our warmest thanks to the Swedish foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for its generous funding of the Gothic in the Anthropocene workshop held at Linnaeus University in 2019, where the first drafts of this collection were presented and discussed, and to the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, which funded editorial meetings along the way. We owe special thanks to Rebecca Duncan, who commented generously on the Introduction, and to the good people at the University of Minnesota Press, who gave this collection the best possible home. We are also very grateful to Linnaeus University and to the University of Southern Denmark for the funding that made it possible to make this book Open Access on the excellent Manifold system. Finally, we thank the contributors whose chapters make up its content and who helped provide essential feedback on early drafts as well as collaborator Esthie Hugo for her assistance when preparing the manuscript for publication. On a personal note, Johan Höglund thanks his colleagues in Concurrences for comments and support and David, Agnes, Edith, Hilda, and Cissi for giving his life joy and meaning outside the confines of the computer screen.