Contemporary Gothic in Literature and Film

George Ayres; Carl H. Sederholm; Antonio Alcala Gonzales

doi:10.5007/2175-8026.2024.e105435

Authors

George Ayres Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6947-6451
Carl H. Sederholm Brigham Young University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0964-6997
Antonio Alcala Gonzales Tecnológico de Monterrey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-5746

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2024.e105435

Abstract

Introduction to the dossier "Contemporary Gothic in Literature and Film".

Author Biographies

George Ayres, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Professor at the Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras (DLLE) of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), where he conducts the research project As Narrativas de Desastre on apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. Academic interests include film theory, science fiction, Gothic fiction, adaptation studies, cultural studies, among other related fields. He has worked extensively with Gothic literature and film, focusing on Victorian Gothic and the 19^th century fin-de-siècle imagination.

Carl H. Sederholm, Brigham Young University

Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University. He is currently the editor of The Journal of American Culture. He has published essays on Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Jonathan Edwards, Lydia Maria Child, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and is the co-author of Poe, the ‘House of Usher,’ and the American Gothic. Sederholm has also co-edited several academic anthologies, including The Age of Lovecraft, Lovecraft in the 21^st Century, Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture, Forgotten Disney and The Weird: A Companion

Antonio Alcala Gonzales, Tecnológico de Monterrey

Professor and chair of the Humanities Faculty at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Santa Fe, Mexico City; and founder of the International Gothic Literature Congress. He has co-edited special journal issues on Nautical Gothic (Gothic Studies) and the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft in the twenty-first century (Aeternum). He also co-edited the critical collections Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic and Lovecraft in the 21st Century Dead, But Still Dreaming (both published by Routledge). He has published articles and book chapters on creators such as H. P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, D. T. Neal, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ivan Albright, Carlos Fuentes and Juan Rulfo as well as the connection between the Gothic tradition and the lyrics of Underground Metal music bands. He is currently preparing an edited critical collection on the connections between the Gothic and the Anthropocene