Jeff Ambrose teaches writing and literature at Delaware County Community College. His scholarly interests include trauma studies, horror, videogames, and the Harry Potter series. Previously he has published works on trauma and healing in Stephen King’s It, teaching gender using Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club, horror and supernatural birth in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and the videogame Gone Home as a horror game. You can find him on Xbox or Twitch with his handle Zoasma.
Rebecca Booth has a master’s degree in film studies from the University of Southampton. A researcher and nonfiction editor based in Belfast, she is the founder and EiC at House of Leaves Publishing (HoL). The co-editor of HoL’s Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film (2020), Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror (2023), and the forthcoming Weird Sisters: Persecution, Psychosis and Empowerment in Witch Narratives, her writing focuses on women’s history, philosophy, and religion across the horror genre, specifically European cinema and survival horror video games. Stammerer and bun mum to Vincent Price, she is usually found roaming the streets of Silent Hill or Raccoon City.
Gabrielle Sinclair Compton (she/they) is an interdisciplinary scholar-artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her creative and scholarly research brings together spatial theory and performance studies to examine strategies toward disruptive and sustained rest, placemaking, and care. Gabrielle teaches in the Interdisciplinary Studies department at Kennesaw State University and holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Georgia and an MFA in Playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Instagram: @gabbxsinclair
Elizabeth Erwin was raised on a steady diet of ABC soap operas, Sweet Valley High books, and 1940s horror. This left her with an affinity for big hair and dramatic monologues. She writes (and podcasts) extensively on horror film and popular culture and is co-creator of Horror Homeroom. Her digital humanities based dissertation, When the Woman Screams, examines the horror film scream as a site of cultural resistance and is the recipient of the 2026 Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award in Popular Culture Studies. Her current research explores the intersection of hauntology and works that fall outside the traditional Gothic canon.
Tess Ezzy is a writer, poet, and PhD candidate in children’s literature at the University of New England, where her research develops Critical Neurodivergent Studies as a framework for reading culture, form, and difference. She is the founding series editor of a forthcoming Routledge book series in CNS and runs the Neurodivergent Creative Methods Lab. Her poetry has appeared in Cordite Poetry Review. She lives in Sydney with a small archive of matchbox cars, Victorian poison rings, and unreasonable opinions about Shirley Jackson.
Sarah Fevri is an MA Digital Media: Critical Studies graduate from University College London. She’s currently busy with her 9-5 job as a UX writer in Indonesia, but dabbles in the occasional independent research, mostly in the macabre and grotesque.
Linda Ganus is a PhD student in the English Department at Lehigh University. She holds an MFA in Fine Art and Visual Culture from Vermont College of Fine Arts, her MA in History from Lehigh University and her Bachelors of Music in Flute Performance from the University of Michigan. Her teaching and research are centered on feminism and the cross-disciplinary history of literature, music and the visual arts in Western culture. She has received grants from the Getty Research Institute and the Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Lehigh. Ms. Ganus also studied painting and drawing at the New York Studio School and the New York Academy of Art, and has exhibited widely across the United States. Her work has been commissioned by organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, David Sarnoff Research Center, Musical America, G. Schirmer, Inc., and the Kinhaven Music Institute, and she is a regular contributing writer to Gallery and Studio magazine. She is a member artist of Pictor Gallery in New York City and currently lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Dawn Keetley is NEH Distinguished Chair and professor of English and Film at Lehigh University. Most recently, she has published Folk Gothic (2023) in the Cambridge University Press Elements series and the co-edited collection, Folk Horror: New Global Pathways (University of Wales Press, 2023). She has also edited collections on Jordan Peele’s Get Out, The Walking Dead, plant horror, and the ecogothic. She is managing editor of the journal Horror Studies and writes regularly for a website she co-founded, Horror Homeroom.
Paul A J Lewis is a writer and lecturer from Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom. He delivers modules centred on film studies, writing, and photography on undergraduate programmes at the University Centre in the town of Grimsby. He has written about horror and neo-noir cinema for various magazines, books, and online outlets, also contributing special features to boutique home video labels. Aside from writing, he collaborates with his lecturer colleague Peter True on the podcast Kill It With Fire – Cult Movies and Cult-Ure. He is presently working on a book chapter focusing on Larry Cohen’s The Stuff (1985) and J Michael Muro’s Street Trash (1987).
Emily Naser-Hall is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies and coordinator of the Film Program at Western Carolina University. Her research focuses on cultural and legal narratives of sexuality, femininity, and privacy post-1945 American literature and film. She has published on the works of Shirley Jackson, gothic domesticity, sexuality, and gendered labor, with forthcoming projects on the frontier in American folk horror, sonic rhetorics in post-#MeToo cinema, and animated motherhood in new indigenous horror films.
Dr Catherine Pugh is a writer and independent scholar with a PhD from the University of Essex. Her work primarily focuses on theatre and screen media, including film, television, and video games. She specialises in representations of disability and mental illness, with an extensive publication history in horror and science fiction collections. Her other interests include the Gothic and metamorphic monsters, animals, and mindscapes. Her approach emphasises the potentiality of physical and psychological difference, including intertwining themes of identity, agency, monstrosity, and power.
Dr Alice Sage is a cultural historian and curator, specialising in childhood, filmmaking, fantasy and material culture. She has held curatorial roles at the Young V&A, Edinburgh Museums and the National Trust. In 2014, she curated the international touring exhibition Small Stories: at home in a dolls’ house, followed in 2016 by Clangers, Bagpuss & Co. Her PhD uncovered the world of children’s performance in the 1920s, and the darkness of loss, nightmares and fairies after the First World War. Wherever she goes and whatever job she does, she is always drawn back to the domain of miniatures.
Dr Lindsey Scott is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Suffolk, UK. She is the co-editor of Investigating Stranger Things: Upside Down in the World of Mainstream Cult Entertainment and has published articles and book chapters on the horror genre and adaptation. Her main research interest is horror in children’s media, and she is an academic member of the AHRC-funded Youth and Horror Research Network. Lindsey.Scott@uos.ac.uk
Raquel Souza is a PhD candidate; she holds a BA in Communication Science and a MA in Anglo-American studies from the University of Porto. Her research interest resides on the influence of American culture on horror films, mainly in the Slasher subgenre. She is also a former Junior Researcher in Anglo-American Studies at CETAPS. Currently, she has been collaborating with the center by using digital tools and digital humanities methods to study horror films and how they are connected to cultural aspects. Raquel has actively participated in horror studies conferences and journals. If you want to contact her, please follow her X profile @raqueldowney.
NelRae Toler is an English lecturer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She utilizes psychoanalytic-feminist-film theory to analyze identity and representation in horror media. As a trans-woman, Toler is particularly interested in transgender, gender diverse, and queer approaches and analyses in horror. She has presented research internationally and publishes her own zine series’ Horror Explorations and Folkloric in her spare time.
Laura Wright is the founder of the field of Vegan Studies. She is Professor of English at Western Carolina University, where she specializes in postcolonial literatures and theory, ecocriticism, and animal studies. Her monographs include Writing Out of All the Camps: J. M. Coetzee’s Narratives of Displacement (Routledge, 2006 and 2009), Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment (U of Georgia P, 2010), which was one of the first monograph studies to investigate postcolonial ecocritical readings, Visual Difference: Postcolonial Studies and Intercultural Cinema (Peter Lang, 2011, co-authored with Elizabeth Heffelfinger), and The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and Gender in the Age of Terror (U of Georgia P, 2015). Her edited collections include Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and other Works (MLA, 2014, lead editor with Elleke Boehmer and Jane Poyner), Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism (U of Nevada P, 2019), The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies (Routledge, 2021), The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies (Edinburgh UP, 2022, lead editor with Emelia Quinn), and Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place (U of Georgia P, 2023, co-editor with Jessica Cory). She is currently working on a monograph on Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, which is under contract with the University of Mississippi Press.
Charlotte Yule is a final year doctoral researcher and occasional lecturer in English at the University of Suffolk. Her thesis “Building Becoming” is a psychogeographic exploration of Cornish landscape in the lives and writings of early twentieth-century women. Charlotte’s most recent paper, “Authoring the Earth Goddess: Unplacatable Wilderness and Transgressive Female Power in Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn,” was published in “Echoes of the Earth: Interplay of Literature and Landscape,” MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature (2025). Forthcoming papers on Mansfield and Woolf are being reviewed for publication in 2027. She holds an executive committee position on the International Women’s Writing Association and leads psychogeography workshops online and in person.
