IGA 2024, Trans/Iterations

Ardel Haefele-Thomas serves as the Chair of LGBTQ+ Studies at City College of San Francisco. They are the author of Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity (University of Wales Press, 2012); Introduction to Transgender Studies (Columbia University Press, 2019); and Transgender: Contemporary World Issues Handbook (ABC-CLIO, 2019). Haefele-Thomas is the editor of Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Their forthcoming works are a four-volume edited set entitled Queer and Trans Britain: Historic Documents 1790-1918 (Routledge Press, UK) and a monograph, AIDS Gothic: The Intersection of Gothic Modes and Disease (University of Wales Press). They have published numerous essays on Gothic – specifically queer and trans Gothic with a focus on intersectionality.

Jason Haslam is McCulloch Professor of English at Dalhousie University. His research pivots around American cultural studies, with particular focuses on the Gothic, Science Fiction, and prison studies. He is the author or editor of several books, among them the monograph Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction (2015), the textbook Thinking Popular Culture (2016), and the essay collection, co-edited with Joel Faflak, American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion (2016). He is currently editing The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction and completing a long-suffering monograph, tentatively titled Gothic Energies, that analyzes the Gothic representation of, and intervention into, energy infrastructure and its cultural (de)formations, especially as connected to our current petrocultural regime.