Gothic Studies
The academic journal of the International Gothic Association (www.globalgoth.org), published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Emily Alder and Jamil Mustafa. Email gothiceditors@gmail.com
@karlbell.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social Historian. Author. C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities. New book: The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (2025)
@macabredanse.bsky.social
A research project looking at ways in which dance and the Gothic intersect, beginning with ballet. Run by Kaja Franck, Karen Graham and Kate Harvey
@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).
@dremilyvincent.bsky.social
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
@abigailmills.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University. Researching 20th and 21st century watery weirdness 🌊🐙
@hauntedshores.bsky.social
Haunted Shores: An interdisciplinary research network for scholars worldwide interested in coastal, nautical, littoral spaces in the Gothic #CoastalGothic https://haunted-shores.com/
@bunikanovel.com
Bluesky account for the Gothic vampire novel "Bunika" by S. B. L. Grant, writer and PhD researcher. Currently looking for agents & publishers 🖤 No AI writing. Art and photography by me. DMs open. London / Bratislava. 🩸 www.bunikanovel.com 🩸
@gothicbodies.bsky.social
Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families. Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
@megenjm.bsky.social
@dreframss.bsky.social
Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
@janetteleaf.bsky.social
Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2024/25. Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
@drdarrengray.bsky.social
Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series. Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
@janiceflux.bsky.social
Scholar of Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, especially Shirley Jackson, zombies, pop lit.
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)
@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@tatiana1979.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. I am researching Patrick McGrath's Gothic Fiction. MLitt in the Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Published by Luna Press Publishing. Posts in English and in Spanish.
@susannegruss.bsky.social
English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen. ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc. ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
@mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com/portfolio-page 📖 helleborezine.com
@hlmurray.bsky.social
Researching and teaching C19 US & Australian Lit, speculative genres, white supremacy, in Melbourne. she/her ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now! https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
@lkremmel.bsky.social
Assistant Professor: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Humanities, History of Medicine, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies (2022)
@emmamerkling.bsky.social
Lecturer in British Art at the University of Manchester | Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social | Co-Host of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social | Writing & teaching c19 British art and science | Victorian ecologies, bodies, occultisms, subjectivity | she/they
@drfloraposte.bsky.social
Lecturer in Criminology at RGU; Visiting Lecturer at Newcastle Sociology. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things. Book forthcoming with MUP.
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
@lauradavidel.bsky.social
Interested in vampires, witches, and ghosts. Ph.D. thesis: Monstrosity, Liminality and Queerness in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. Probably away taking pictures 📷
@hpbookcraft.bsky.social
36. She/they. Folklore, horror, hauntology. Master's in Gothic literature. Keeper of wayward books, editor, and thing that goes bump in the night.
@barbarafranchi.bsky.social
Contemporary literature scholar, feminist, wannabe eco-criticist. Career Development Fellow in Postcolonial and World Literatures at Durham University. she/her
@iheartsmarties.bsky.social
An American Psychoanalyst in London. Future PhD student at MMU researching psychoanalysis, trauma, and the Gothic. meghankelley-lcsw.com
@jorunnjoiner.bsky.social
PhD in English literature from Lund University, studying cultural memory and portrayals of the ancient Scandinavian past in British Romanticism. Occasional artist.
@john-stone.bsky.social
Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking. English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona. https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone #18thC #bookhistory
@kmfranseen.bsky.social
Musicologist. Postdoc at Western University, prev. at Concordia. Current project: Antonio Salieri’s Intriguing Afterlives: Gossip, Fiction, and the Post-Truth in Musical Biography. I also wrote a book on the history of queer musicology! Holmesian. she/her
@folklorepod.bsky.social
Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
@mythopoetica.bsky.social
Author. Rhysling-nominated poet. Gothic Academic. PhD. she/her Words in: Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny etc Codex; MLA. www.mythopoetica.com debut novel: Watermyth (2024) https://mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook
@poestudies.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed journal published by Johns Hopkins UP. Cultural & material contexts that shaped the production & reception of Edgar Allan Poe's work. https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poe-studies-history-theory-interpretation
@johnnymains.co.uk
The UK's foremost horror anthologist. “Johnny Mains is the Herbert van Thal of our age” – The Independent AuDHD. Got the morbs.
@jendeavour.bsky.social
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature at Uni of Warwick. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
@smaugish.bsky.social
Final year PhD candidate in English Literature @ Lancaster University. Researching asexuality in fin-de-siecle ghost and Weird fiction. Big ol goff.
@wendyfall.bsky.social
PhD in 19th C gothic fiction. She/her. Displaced scholar working full-time in state government (public health). Theater and music performer. Adjunct professor. Ally.
@katrinajan.bsky.social
English Lit PhD & Research Support Officer @UniBirmingham Jack the Ripper in #19c & Contemporary #Romance Novels, Serial Killers, True Crime, #Gothic Co-runs @gothicauob.bsky.social 🦇 & cerealkillernet.bsky.social 🔪
@gothicauob.bsky.social
A spooky network interested in exploring all aspects of the Gothic at @unibirmingham. Co-run by @katrinajan.bsky.social, @dremilyvincent.bsky.social & Ross Conway. Blog: https://uobgothica.wordpress.com/past-sessions/
@dundeegothic.bsky.social
A collective of academics, students, writers and artists working on Gothic literature, art, comics, film and other media. Based in Dundee, Scotland. Director: @profdanielcook.bsky.social
@helengroth.bsky.social
Professor of Literary Studies University of New South Wales
@jasondbrawn.bsky.social
A published horror author, collector, hardcore horror fan with an MA in Gothic: Culture, Subculture and Counterculture, and a BA in Film and Media. Strict vegetarian with AuDHD, who has completed three marathons. Halloween 🎃👻 is my favourite season.
@scarlettbutchers1.bsky.social
PhD student ◇ Ecocriticism, Folk Horror, Monstrosity, David Rudkin, (eco)gothic ◇ 1/3 of @LincolnGothic1.bsky.social
@coveeditions.bsky.social
COVE Studio | COVE Editions COVE provides classroom-ready DH tools and a corpus of annotatable texts & publishes peer-reviewed digital editions www.covecollective.org
@waterygraves.bsky.social
@jane-ares.bsky.social
PhD CANDIDATE dissertating about the Gothic and the internet. friendly neighborhood queer Gothicist. secret folklorist. she/her
@franzpotter.bsky.social
Professor & Gothic chapbook enthusiast. Gothic publishing, bibliography & book history. Obsessed with Sarah Wilkinson's biography. All views are my own.
@laurenjnixon.bsky.social
Doctor of Gothic Studies, specialising in masculinity, war and nation. One half of The Ghoul Guides, spooky pop culture podcasting. Semi-retired magical girl. She/Her.