Blair Speakman @sirgagaxox.bsky.social An Academic-Witch and Lady Gaga stan.
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Stacey Abbott @profsaabbott.bsky.social Professor of Film and Television, Northumbria University. Horror scholar and writer. Author of Celluloid Vampires, Undead Apocalypse, TV Horror, BFI Classic on Near Dark. Canadian in the UK but forever Canadian. she/her.
Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College Dublin. M. R. James, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle - and fountain pens.
Inés Ordiz @iordiz.bsky.social Feminist in process. Doctor in Gothic literature. Ex-migrante con el corazón en dos lenguas. She/her, ella. 🩷💜🩵
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
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Sara Wasson @sarawasson.bsky.social Reader at Lancaster University. Gothic, science fiction, medicine, ecology, plant studies, the Arctic. Books: Urban Gothic; Gothic SF; Transplantation Gothic. She/her.
Laurence Talairach @laurence-talairach.bsky.social Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture | Hist. of med & science | Natural history museums & collections | Literature & Science |Gothic studies | Children's lit
Ruth Heholt @ruthheholt.bsky.social Prof of literature and culture. Gothic, crime, masculinity, ghosts. Lead of the Dark Economies Scholarly Association (dESA). Editor Rvenantjournal.com
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Dr. Anya H-vdL @anyahvdl.bsky.social Lecturer in Eng Lit; 📚 'Monstrous Textualities', 'Posthuman Gothic', 'Writing Romantic Climate Change'. Probably on a train right now. Still masking. She/they/whatever.
Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social Horror Lex® (https://horrorlex.com) is the home of academic horror. Explore our huge research database of scholarly, thoughtful writings on horror films. #horror
Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social Associate Professor / Creative Industries R&I Lead @ University of South Wales. @fanstudies.bsky.social Board Member. Transmedia Tourism • Theme Parks • Disney • Participatory Cultures • Media Endings
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!)
The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: https://broadviewpress.com/product/the-broadview-anthology-of-science-fiction/
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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social Established in 2023 to promote and advance the study of the American Gothic through research, teaching, and publication.
Helen Wheatley (she/her) @helenwheatley.bsky.social Academic Director of Warwick Institute of Engagement, Professor of Film and Television, Co-Founder of the Centre for Television Histories and mum of three teenagers and three cats
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
Andrew Smith @andysheff.bsky.social Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. Most recent book is 'Dickens and the Gothic' (CUP), currently writing a book on 'Vegetarian Gothic' (CUP).
Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield. Romanticism, Gothic, author and general co-ed of Ann Radcliffe for forthcoming Cambridge edition and gen co-ed of Cambridge Elements in the Gothic. PL AHRC project ‘Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now’
Simon Bacon @baconetti.bsky.social Author, film critic, and editor of all things Gothicky.
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast
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Dr Kirstin Mills @kirstinmills.bsky.social The #Gothic; #18thC - #19thC literature & sciences of the mind, occult & supernatural; digital Gothic 👻
Associate Professor & Director: Master of Research, Faculty of Arts, MQU, Sydney
Co-Editor: ANCR & INCSA Book Series
She/Her
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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social FRSC Professor in Halifax🍁. Member of @dalfaculty.bsky.social . Locked out for 30 days in 2025. Views here mine only. Rebleats≠agreement.
"it is not Air / That from a thousand Lungs reeks back to thine" (Armstrong 1744). Silence=Spread🦠 #COVIDisAirborne
Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social Professor of Gothic literature mainly posting about books, cake, horses and my cat Dickens.
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Franz Potter @franzpotter.bsky.social Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social Professor in Popular Literature with a focus on American horror and Gothic narratives & the work of Shirley Jackson. Views own.
Dr Franziska Kohlt @frankendodo.bsky.social Historian& Sociologist of Science at KCL | Historical Climatology & Glaciology | Former Inaugural USC Carrollian Fellow | Tutor Oxford ContEd | Keynote Speaker, Alice in Wonderland Expert & Polymath | Erdős–Bacon No 8 | https://linktr.ee/frankendodo
Dr Malgorzata Drewniok @vampirelinguist.bsky.social Linguist, EAP and international students expert, HE Third Space professional. Fellow of AHEP.
TV geek, consumer of popular culture, fan of vampire texts, bookworm.
Sorcha Ní Fhlainn @sorchanf.bsky.social Reader in Film Studies & American Studies @ Manchester Met Uni. Researcher in Pop Culture, Gothic, C Nolan, Horror, Vampires, & Time Travel. Writes books and lives in a 1980s time warp.
Monica Germanà @monicagermana.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, Lecturer. Co-President of the International Gothic Association. Research interests in Monsters, Blue Humanities, the Arctic and… James Bond!
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Nik Taylor @doctormagick.bsky.social Doctor Magick, or Doctor Random? I'm not so sure.
Magician | Academic | Artist | Bizzare Magick | Seance | YouTube |
https://www.youtube.com/@Doctor_Random
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Catherine Spooner @catherinespooner.bsky.social Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
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