Mark Richard Adams received his First Class BA with Honours from Southampton Solent University along with a Dissertation Award for his study of Clive Barker's Queer Monsters, examining the potential for progressive queer representation in the horror genre. He has completed a Masters with Merit at Brunel University in Cult Film and Television and is now expanding his Masters research further, towards a PhD, funded by a Brunel scholarship. The research currently carries the working title of Theorising Fan-Producers: Re-examining Fandom, Resistance and Oppositions, and it seeks to redefine the way audiences and audience interactions are interpreted, using Doctor Who as a case study.
Dr. Richard M. Caputo recently received his Doctorate in Literature from Stony Brook University with a focus on Classical Literature and Modernism. Since completing his dissertation on Theosophy and the supernatural adventure story, Richard is continuing to explore ways in which the paranormal and occult have influenced and appear in literature. He is currently working on an article discussing Theosophy and Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and one entitled "Orientalizing Troy in the Epic Cycle."
Russell Cherrington is a Senior Lecturer in Film & Video Production, University of Derby. His specialist interest is the works of Clive Barker, Jean Cocteau and the notion of Cinematic Hell.
He runs the website www.clivebarkerimaginer.com and is involved the creation of a series of archival books of Clive Barkers works at www.seraphimbooks.com
Dr. Kevin Corstorphine lectures in English at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull. He studied English and Philosophy at the University of Dundee before completing a Masters in Romanticism at St Andrews and a PhD on haunted houses in American Literature at Dundee. He has previously lectured at the University of Limerick and has published on Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, and Robert Bloch among others. He is currently working on ecology and American Gothic.
Dr. Daragh Downes wrote his PhD on parapsychological/occult themes and motifs in a number of key texts of European modernism. He has also completed an MPhil in Popular Literature at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His current research interests include Shakespeare, the Victorian novel, children’s literature, narratology and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. He also writes for The Irish Times.
Dr. Jacob Huntley teaches literature and creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His critical work principally explores non-mimetic or genre fiction, often from a Deleuzian perspective, and he has written on subjects including the Gothic, J.G. Ballard, William Hope Hodgson and the Saw films.
Dr. Gareth James received his PhD from Exeter University in 2011, where he researched the branding history of HBO. He has previously published and presented conference papers on contemporary television, American independent cinema and trans-media narration.
Dr. Darryl Jones is Head of the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He has written and edited a number of books, including most recently M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories (OUP, 2011) and It Came from the 1950s: Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties (Palgrave, 2011, with Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M Murphy), and many articles on popular literature and culture.
Dr. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn studied History and Politics at University College Dublin from 2000 - 2003. She went on to study for a Masters at the Clinton Institute of American Studies at UCD, graduating in 2004. In 2009, she graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a PhD in English, which focused on Postmodern Vampires in Fiction, Culture and Film 1974-2008. She has edited academic essay collections on the "Back to the Future" Trilogy for McFarland publishers (2010) and "Our Monstrous (S)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity for The Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford (2010). She has published several articles and book chapters on 1980s Culture and Cinema, Postmodernism, the Gothic, Monsters, Vampires and American Presidents. She is currently writing a monograph on Postmodern Vampires, researching the works of Clive Barker, and teaches literature at Trinity College Dublin, and film at University College Dublin.
Dr. Harvey O’Brien is the author of The Real Ireland (Manchester, 2004) and the forthcoming Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back (Wallflower, 2011). He is co-editor of the journal Film and Film Culture and, with Ruth Barton, of Keeping it Real: Irish Film and Television (Wallflower, 2004). Recent writings include pieces on Ed Wood, Sherlock Holmes, Millennial Science Fiction, and Irish theatre and film. He teaches Film Studies at UCD.
Michael O'Rourke works mostly at and has published extensively on the intersections between queer theory and continental philosophy. He is currently co-authoring a book called The Pervert's Guide to Reading and starting a book on queer theory and speculative realism.
You can find some of his publications here: http://independentcolleges.
Bernard Perron is Full Professor of Cinema at the University of Montreal. He has co-edited The Video Game Theory Reader 1 (Routledge, 2003) and 2 (Routledge, 2009). He has also edited Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play (McFarland, 2009 – foreword by Clive Barker). He has written Silent Hill: The Terror Engine, to be published in 2011 by The University of Michigan Press in The Landmark Video Games book series he is co-editing. His research and writings concentrate on video games; on horror; on interactive cinema; on narration, cognition, and the ludic dimension of narrative cinema. His website: <http://www.ludicine.ca/>.
Tony M. Vinci is currently working toward his PhD in English and Cultural Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is co-editor of Culture, Identities, and Technology in the Star Wars Films: Essays on the Two Trilogies (2006), has published essays on the cultural work of contemporary fantasy cinema in the Journal of Popular Culture and is a regular presenter at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and Popular Culture Association conferences. His current projects interrogate the recent influx of postmodern apocalyptic scholarship and the valorization of alterity in the work of Clive Barker.
Tim Wallington was born in Warrington, England, and took a bachelors degree in English in Leeds before leaving the country to teach overseas. He has taught English and English as a Second Language in seven countries, including the USA, where he took his masters degree in English and now lives. He is interested in theories of the fantastic and their application in 20th century British fiction.
Tim Wallington was born in Warrington, England, and took a bachelors degree in English in Leeds before leaving the country to teach overseas. He has taught English and English as a Second Language in seven countries, including the USA, where he took his masters degree in English and now lives. He is interested in theories of the fantastic and their application in 20th century British fiction.
