U. Melissa Anyiwo
is Professor of Politics & History and Coordinator of Black Studies at Curry College, Massachusetts, and Co-Chair of the Vampire Studies Area of the National Popular Culture Association. A transplanted Nigerian-British citizen with background in race, gender, diversity, and visual archetypes, she writes and presents on vampires and their connection to racial and gendered stereotypes. She has published several book chapters on teaching diversity and her published work on vampires includes the edited collections Buffy Conquers the Academy (Cambridge Scholars, 2013), Race in the Vampire Narrative (Sense, 2015), Gender in the Vampire Narrative (Sense, 2016), Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy (Sense/Brill, 2018), and Queering the Vampire Narrative (Brill, forthcoming 2021). Finally, she starred in the documentary ‘Lestat, Louis, and the Vampire Phenomenon’ for the Interview with the Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition DVD (Warner Brothers, 2014).
Jennifer DeVere Brody
is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University where she serves as the Faculty Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her books, Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture (1998) and Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play (2008) were both published by Duke University Press. She has published widely on race, gender, sexuality and visual culture. She co-edits the journal, GLQ: Gay & Lesbian Quarterly with C. Riley Snorton.
Helen Davies
is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at University of Wolverhampton, UK. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and has published widely on gender, sexuality, and disability in neo-Victorianism. She is currently writing a book about the representation of Down syndrome in neo-Victorianism.
Jesse Ryan Erickson
is the Coordinator of Special Collections and Digital Humanities, Assistant Professor in the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the University of Delaware. He previously worked as a bibliographic researcher and
Felipe Espinoza Garrido
is Assistant Professor of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the University of Münster, where he completed a PhD on Post-Thatcherism in British Film. He previously taught media and cultural studies at the University of Dortmund. Specializing in popular culture and postcolonial studies, he has recently published on Black British pop fiction and Afrofuturism, Sonia Boyce’s neo-Victorianism, Minstrelsy in Disney, and Chilean post-exile cinema. He is co-editor of Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations (Routledge, 2020) and is currently working on a monograph on empire imaginations in Victorian popular women’s writing.
Corinne Fowler
is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leicester, and director of the ‘Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted’ project. Her most recent publication is Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections (Peepal Tree Press, 2020).
Susanne Gruss
teaches English literature and culture at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has published a monograph on contemporary feminist writing (The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter, Rodopi, 2009), co-edited a collection on neo-Victorianism (Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture: Immersions and Revisitations, with Nadine Boehm-Schnitker, Routledge, 2014) and written articles on (Bollywood) film adaptation, contemporary literature, (trans)gender, the ‘Jacobean gothic’, and various aspects of neo-Victorianism. She is an associate editor of Neo-Victorian Studies. Her research interests include gender, film and media studies, contemporary literature, the Gothic, revenge tragedy, early modern piracy, and the intersection of legal discourses and literature. She has just finished her second book, entitled The Laws of Excess: Law, Literature, and the Laws of Genre in Early Modern Drama.
Lewis Mondal
is a doctoral researcher and graduate tutor in the Department of English Studies at Teesside University. His thesis is entitled ‘Apprehensive Intimacies: Between
Antonija Primorac
is an Associate Professor of English Studies at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. She is on the Management Committee of the COST Action Distant Reading for European Literary History, within which she also leads the Working Group ‘Literary Theory and History’. Antonija is the author of Neo-Victorianism on Screen: Postfeminism and Contemporary Adaptations of Victorian Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and co-editor of the 2015 special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies entitled Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation: Transnational Dissemination of Nineteenth-Century Cultural Texts. Her research interests include adaptation, nineteenth-century literature, neo-Victorianism, postcolonial and Canadian studies, feminist theory, world literature theories and literature in translation.
Judith Rahn
is a lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. She is currently completing her book Exploring Posthuman Life in Contemporary Fiction and is co-editor of the volume Nonhuman Agencies in the 21st-Century Anglophone Novel (Palgrave, forthcoming 2021 (with Bettina Burger and Yvonne Liebermann) and the special issue Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories (Critical Studies in Media Communication 37:4, 2020, with Eva U. Pirker). She is co-editor of the sections ‘Writing and Culture in Postwar and Contemporary Britain’ and ‘English Writing and Culture of the Early Twentieth Century’ at The Literary Encyclopedia (litencync.org) and the author of ‘Entangled peripheries: Spatial agency in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child (Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2021). She has published on the cultural significance of cannibalism and monstrosity in nineteenth-century literature and her research interests include posthumanism, affect and new materialist theory, Afrofuturism, Black British fictions, and postcolonial literatures.
Iolanda Ramos
is an Associate Professor at Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a researcher at the Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies
Marlena Tronicke
is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. Her areas of research and teaching include early modern as well as contemporary British drama, (neo-)Victorian literature and culture, as well as gender and adaptation studies. Her first monograph, Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter, was published by Routledge in 2018, and she is currently working on a second book project on negotiations of empire and domesticity in neo-Victorian fiction. She is co-editor (with Caroline Koegler and Pavan Malreddy) of Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains (special issue Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2020) and Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters, a special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies (with Caroline Koegler, 2020).
Julian Wacker
teaches English, Postcolonial and Media Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. His PhD examines spatial configurations in grime culture and contemporary Black British music video. Further research interests include Neo-Victorian and Neo-Edwardian imaginaries, Black and Asian British writing and film as well as Nigerian fiction. He has previously published articles on grime poetry, opacity in Teju Cole’s oeuvre, and queer potentialities in retellings of Nigerian folklore. His critical survey of Black and Asian British popular textualities, ‘Frontline Fictions: Popular Forms from Crime to Grime’, has been published in The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Maria Weilandt
is a researcher at the Department of General and Comparative Literature (Institute for Arts and Media) at the University of Potsdam. Her doctoral thesis is called “‘Voilà une Parisienne!’ Stereotypisierungen als verflochtene Erzählungen” [“‘Voilà une Parisienne!’ Stereotypings as Entangled Narratives” forthcoming].