The Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies
An informal network for promoting the work of Gothic and horror scholars (whether they be affiliated or independent) and creative practitioners from throughout the island of Ireland.
@friendsinthepages.bsky.social
Reading, writing and studying a Masters in Children's and Young Adult Literature 📚📑📝✍️ Student Editor at https://dublincityuniversitychildrensandyaliterature.wordpress.com/
@ailishb.bsky.social
PhD student in English @ UCC 👩🏻💻📖 DCU Alumna. 👩🏻🎓 Postgrad Officer - Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature. Reviewer/book admin for Children’s Books Ireland. 📚
@annaga.bsky.social
Lecturer and IRC Starting Laureate Fellow at University of Galway. Italian Galwegian. If it is about books, medical history, children's & YA literature & culture, you have my attention. Terry Pratchett enthusiast.
@lnhowley.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at DCU School of English working on Irish and Caribbean literature ellenhowley.com
@madelinepotter.bsky.social
ECR Teaching & Research Fellow 19th century @LLCatEdinburgh | @CN_CSI |Theological Monsters (UWP), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
@aylinwalder.bsky.social
#FirstGen academic📍Braunschweig / Cologne PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸 Student Caucus Rep @IAFA 🦄
@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.
@tlrhub.bsky.social
📣 Activating Public Humanities 📚 Advancing Research Excellence 💥 Driving Innovative Research 📩 Signup for events: http://tinyurl.com/TLRHnews 💬 #hubmatters 🌐 https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/
@bibliorefuses.bsky.social
linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell. Literary Fiction for adults, Fantasy for younger/universal readership. Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
@drsarazadrozny.bsky.social
Victorian fiction, medicine and culture. Researching gender, ageing and the Gothic. Departmental Tutor at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education.
@witchstorian.bsky.social
Cultural Historian & Musicologist | PhD in Witchcraft, Music & Magic | Bog Thing & Forest Wanderer | Gothic & Horror Enthusiast 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈
@horrorhomeroom.bsky.social
👻 We take horror seriously so you don't have to! 🔪 Visit us at www.horrorhomeroom.com
@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
@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)
@dawnkeetley.bsky.social
Prof of English and Film at Lehigh University; editor of the journal HORROR STUDIES; co-founder of HorrorHomeroom.com; author of FOLK GOTHIC (Cambridge Elements) & co-ed of FOLK HORROR (U Wales P) and PLANT HORROR (Palgrave). All things horror and gothic!
@ailise-bulfin.bsky.social
Popular culture from 19thC to now: catastrophe | war | environment ERC PI: Child Sexual Abuse in Fiction https://csa-in-fiction.com/ @csarepsprojectucd.bsky.social Book: Gothic Invasions: Imperialism, War & Pop Fiction https://people.ucd.ie/ailise.bulfin1
@daoudiaicha.bsky.social
@mugarelli.bsky.social
🇵🇪 Autora de "Fieras" y "Artilugios" (Hipatia Ediciones) 🦇LatAm Gothicist Visiting Assistant Professor @Hamiltoncollege PhD @JohnsHopkins Lic. en Literatura @PUCP
@cedreid.bsky.social
Podcaster, Writer, Researcher. Podcasts: 'The Greatest Matter' (Victorian Gothic Audiodrama) and 'Words To That Effect' (Narrative storytelling show on popular fiction). Head of Podcasts at HeadStuff/The Podcast Studios.
@lysaacer.bsky.social
Pop Culture Theorist, Horror Studies SAE, Comic & Horror Scholar, English Professor. HWA member. MSLIS student with focus in Archival Administration. Feminist, Freedom Fighter. #RestrictedRebel #RestrictedRebelRealTimeReads Peace, Progress, Purpose.
@erika-kvistad.bsky.social
Associate professor in English, ghost enthusiast. I work on the Gothic and horror, sex and romance, and digital narratives.
@eparisot.bsky.social
Associate Professor in English at Flinders University. Eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Death and suicide. Graveyard poetry. The Gothic. Vampires. Jane Austen. In another life would make a killing as a wedding DJ. https://shorturl.at/GWY35
@lauramulcahy.bsky.social
Final year PhD student researching representations of trauma in the works of Stephen King. More importantly, a lap-warmer for my dog.
@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 https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/ www.opengravesopenminds.com
@choudhup.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Animal Studies, Environmental Humanities, Horror @UCD. Exploring depictions of meat and cannibalism within the context of the current climate crisis and food systems. Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social. 🌱 animalstudiesucd.com
@bianchiniginevra.bsky.social
PhD Student at Trinity College Dublin | Gender Studies | Critical Race Studies | Dog mum 🐶 | LOTR enthusiast | (she/her) 🏳️🌈 | PG Caucus co-chair of the Irish Association for American Studies | Funded by @researchireland.bsky.social
@gothicstudies.bsky.social
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
@sjsociety.bsky.social
A scholarly collective devoted to the work and influence of Shirley Jackson. We publish Shirley Jackson Studies, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal: https://shirleyjacksonstudies.org/.
@careymillsapspears.bsky.social
Author of Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No, Lexington Books, 2023. Views own https://careyspears.academia.edu/
@bookswithbite.bsky.social
Nancy is a writer of dark fiction & academic texts. Nancy’s particular interest, both in fiction and academically, are female vampires. Her MA thesis formed the basis to Take A Bite, available vamped up for public consumption: www.bookswithbite.in
@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)
@thriftonaut.bsky.social
Charity shop finds, puns and Dad jokes. West-Cork-ish based. Interests; history, film and Vintage Irish kitchenalia. "the most formidable fighting animal", the "king of all kings in the domain of animal life" and "the absolute warlord of the earth"
@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.
@joshsaco.bsky.social
Captain of the good ship @miskatonicihs.bsky.social I did other stuff, and do other stuff.
@plaguedr-richards.bsky.social
☠️ "an aging, deeply unlikeable woman who never had kids," a kitchen witch, and a cat fancier; she/her ☠️ horror & gothic scholar, professor, editor of Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture, supernaturalstudies.com
@maireadcasey.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies/Post-Doctoral PM for MSCA-Funded REBPAF project at University of Galway. Research interests: horror, gender, genre, sexuality onscreen, representations of sexual violence, demon possession
@nicolemwolverton.bsky.social
Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers, including A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS (7.24) | HWA, SFWA, Codex | avowed monkeywrench | horror academic | nicolewolverton.com
@maryburke.bsky.social
"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
@drdjohnston.bsky.social
Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
@abominabledrh.bsky.social
Content Project Manager/Content Strategist. Pagan. Rock music nerd. Dog lover. Reader. Pluviophile. Tree hugger. Norfolk boy in the real capital of Ireland. Born in the 60s, moulded in the 70s. Happily spoken for. Reenchantment is resistance.
@clareclarke.bsky.social
Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers. New book coming soon(ish) Rep: Aevitas Creative UK
@middleagewitch.bsky.social
Lecturer in English @UCC // Horror scholar // Autor of Haunted States: An American Gothic Guide Book and Teen Witches: Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture
@drdara.bsky.social
@janiceflux.bsky.social
Scholar of Horror, the Gothic, Science Fiction, especially Shirley Jackson, zombies, pop lit.