Twentieth-Century Gothic

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies and founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) which was awarded the Lord Ruthven Prize in 2020 and the editor of Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer (Manchester University Press, 2017) The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical essays on the films (Macfarland, 2010) and Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity (The Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010).
Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film and was recently academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (2021, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman). Bernice was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in 2017.