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 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 recent publications include contributions to The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2023), Folk Horror: New Global Pathways (2023), The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (2023), Film Stardom in Southeast Asia (2022), and The New Uban Gothic (2020). She also co-edited four special journal issues on Thai (2014) and Southeast Asian (2015) horror film, Tropical Gothic (2019) and Asian Gothic (2023), and two book collections: Thai Cinema: The Complete Guide (2018) and South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories and Media (2021). She is currently working on a book on Asian Gothic, and co-editing two collections on Southeast Asian Gothic and Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic.
Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0035-8374