Conference Directors
Megan DeVirgilis, PhD
Megan DeVirgilis is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages & International Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has published in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Gothic Studies, and other venues. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Female Vampire in Hispanic Literature: A Critical Anthology of Turn of the 20th Century Gothic-Inspired Tales (University of Wales Press), and co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas (Manchester University Press). Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Sandra García Gutiérrez, PhD
Sandra García Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Iberian Studies in the Department of English and Modern Languages at Lamar University. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish along with a Graduate Certificate in Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is co-editing the volume Women’s Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas, forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She co-directed the first edition of the conference “FOGO: Folklore and Gothic: Supernatural Presences and Environments in Spain and the Americas,” held at the Universidad de León, Spain, in July of 2023. Sandra is an enthusiastic researcher of the Gothic, and she has published several articles related to heroines and the treatment of fear.
Organizing Committee
L. Adam Mekler, PhD
Associate Professor of EnglishDepartment of English and Language ArtsMorgan State University, USHarold Morales, PhD
Associate Professor of Religious StudiesDepartment of Philosophy and Religious StudiesMorgan State University, USMiriam López Santos, PhD
Associate Professor of Literature DidacticsDepartment of Hispanic and Classical PhilologyArea of Language and Literature DidacticsUniversity of León, SpainInés Ordiz, PhD
Associate Professor of LiteratureDepartment of Foreign Languages and LinguisticsNational University of Distance Education (UNED), SpainErin Minnick
Doctoral Student of EnglishDepartment of English and Language ArtsMorgan State University, USThank you to our thoughtful and generous collaborators:
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