Contributors

Björn Quanjer

Postdoctoral researcher, Radboud University

Postdoctoral researcher, Radboud University

Beverly-Jean Daniel

Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Toronto Metropolitan University

Associate Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Toronto Metropolitan University Dr. Daniel is currently an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Child and Youth Care Program. In this role, her research focuses on the factors that foster positve racial identity amongst Black youth; the role of Child and Youth Care Practitioners in supporting children who have been taken into and aged out of care. More recently her research examines patterns of suicidality amongst Black youth and young adults. In 2010 Dr. Daniel founded and developed the ground-breaking, strengths-based student support program called The Bridge, the first of its kind in any Canadian college or university. She continues to conduct research on Black student engagement and retention from pre-K to Ph.D.

Brian Tang

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, State University of New York

Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, University at Albany, State University of New York Dr. Brian Tang's research focuses on tropical cyclones (hurricanes), including how they form, what causes them to intensify/weaken, and how they interact with the environment around them. His also has performed research on severe thunderstorms, including how terrain interacts with storms and how large hail frequency has changed.

Ben Kisby

Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Lincoln

Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Lincoln Ben Kisby is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on citizenship education. His research interests include British politics, public policy and youth political engagement. He co-founded the Political Studies Association’s Young People’s Politics specialist research group.

Bob Baulch

Professor of Economics, RMIT University Vietnam

Professor of Economics, RMIT University Vietnam Bob is a professor of economics in the School of Business and Management at RMIT University Vietnam's South Saigon Campus. He was trained at the universities of Oxford (undergrad), Sussex (masters) and Stanford (doctorate) and has worked in 23 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. He has worked for the Asian Development Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute, Natural Resources Institute, University of Sussex, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and World Bank, as well as RMIT University Vietnam. He also has been a manager for a community interest company and he ran his own successful economic consultancy company. For Bob's publications and research interests, please see his Google Scholar and ORCID links.

Bernice M. Murphy

Associate Professor in Popular Literature, Trinity College Dublin

Associate Professor in Popular Literature, Trinity College Dublin My major teaching and research interests lie in the areas of Popular Literature and American horror and Gothic fiction and film. I undertook my undergraduate and MA studies at Queen’s University, Belfast, and did my PhD thesis on Shirley Jackson at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland between 2000-2003. I took up my post as a lecturer in the School of English in 2008 and I am now an Associate Professor in Popular Literature. I was made a Fellow of the College in April 2017. I edited the first ever essay collection on the American writer Shirley Jackson (Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy, 2005), and have since published numerous articles and book chapters on her work. I also acted as academic consultant for The Letters of Shirley Jackson (Penguin Random House, 2021), working closely with the volume editor, Laurence Jackson Hyman, Jackson's eldest son. Additionally, along with my colleagues Dara Downey and Janice Deitner, I established the project 'Reading Shirley Jackson in the Twenty-First Century', which helped bring fresh academic attention to Jackson's lesser known and under-appreciated works of fiction and non-fiction. I also specialise in the study of place and space in American horror and gothic narratives. To date, I have published four monographs in this subject area: The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009); The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror and Terror and the Wilderness (2013) The Highway Horror Film (2014) and The California Gothic in Fiction and Film (2022). I have edited (or co-edited) five academic essay collections, most recently the 2022 volume Twentieth-Century Gothic (with Sorcha Ni Fhlainn). My textbook Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction was published in 2017. Along with my colleague Clare Clarke, I am the co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to True Crime.