Dr Katarzyna Ancuta is a Cultural Studies scholar specialising in Gothic/Horror Studies. Her research interests oscillate around the interdisciplinary contexts of contemporary Gothic/Horror (from popular fiction, film, television and video, multimedia and performance art, theatre, music and dance, comics and graphic novels, to fashion and alternative lifestyles) currently with a strong Asian focus.

She is the author of Where Angels Fear to Hover: Between the Gothic Disease and the Meataphysics of Horror (2005) and her most significant publications include contributions to A New Companion to the Gothic (2012), Globalgothic (2013), The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic (2014), Neoliberal Gothic (2017), The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (2017), B-Movie Gothic (2018), Twenty-first-century Gothic (2019), Gothic and the Arts (2019) and The New Urban Gothic (2020).

She co-edited three special journal issues on Thai (Horror Studies 5.2, 2014, with Mary J. Ainslie) and Southeast Asian (Plaridel 12.2, 2015, with Patrick Campos) horror film and Tropical Gothic (eTropic 18.1/2, 2019, with Anita Lundberg, Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska, and Roger Osborne). She also co-edited two edited collections: Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018, with Mary J. Ainslie) and South Asian Gothic (2021, with Deimantas Valanciunas) and is currently co-editing a similar volume on Southeast Asian Gothic (with Mary J. Ainslie and Andrew Hock Soon Ng).