Bethany Doane is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, where she received her PhD English and Women’s Studies in August 2019. Her research and writing focus on contemporary literature, film, and culture with an emphasis on race and gender in horror. She recently edited a special cluster in Modern Language Studies on “Speculative Horror,” and she is currently working on her first book project, Weird Reading: Race, Gender, and the Inhuman in Contemporary Horror.
Amy Hough is a doctoral student in the department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. She specializes in English, and is interested in comics, young adult literature, popular culture, youth culture, and making the English classroom a more approachable space for all students.
Christy Tidwell is Associate Professor of English & Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. She works primarily at the intersection of environmental humanities, speculative fiction, and gender studies. She is Digital Strategies Coordinator for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), co-leader of ASLE’s Ecomedia interest group, and co-organizer of A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene, a nearly carbon neutral virtual conference held in Summer 2018. She wrote the entry on ecohorror for Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova’s Posthuman Glossary (2018), contributed an article on Mira Grant’s Parasite to the ecohorror cluster in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2014), and recently published a chapter on Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, and de-extinction anxiety in Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (2020). She is also co-editor of both Gender and Environment in Science Fiction with Bridgitte Barclay (Lexington Books, 2018) and Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene with Carter Soles (Penn State University Press, forthcoming).
Kevin J. Wetmore is a professor at Loyola Marymount University, editor of the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Stranger Things Uncovered, The Streaming of Hill House, and the forthcoming The Many Lives of The Twilight Zone, and author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema, among other books. He has contributed numerous book chapters on horror, scifi, Asian theatre and cinema, African theatre and cinema, and Shakespeare. His work previously appeared in Horror Homeroom in the Friday the 13th special issue.
Ayanna Woods is a writer and researcher living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A recent graduate of Howard University, Ayanna is now an MA candidate in Lehigh University’s English department and the Research Assistant for the Gloria Naylor Archive at Lehigh University. She leads on-campus education related to Gloria Naylor and Black women writers, and her scholarship focuses on portrayals of the Black, female experience in literature and film.
