Resumen de The Ecogothic: an interview with Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland Trang Dang
Elizabeth Parker (entrevistado), Michelle Poland (entrevistado), Trang Dang (entrev.)
Elizabeth Parkeris the author of the monographThe Forest and theEcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination, published by Palgrave Gothic in March 2020. She is the founding editor of the open-access journalGothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothicand television editor forThe Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. She has co-organised several conferences on space, place, and the relationship between the Gothic and the more-than-human, has published her work in various titles such asPlant Horror!: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction and FilmandTransecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, and is co-editor ofLandscapes ofLiminality: Between Space and Place. She has taught English Literature and courses on Popular Culture at a number of universities across the UK and Ireland, and currently works in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion at St Mary’s Uni-versity Twickenham.Michelle Polandis the Research Impact Manager at Nottingham Trent University, a role which in-volves supporting researchers across the institution to identify ways than can enable their research tomake a meaningful difference in the world. Michelleis a passionate advocate for the role research plays in enhancing our prosperity, health, and quality of life and is currently working towards developing impact from her own research on the Gothic, ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene. She received her PhD in English from the University of Lincoln in 2019, is Co-Editor of the open-access peer-reviewed inter-disciplinary journal Gothic Nature, and has published work in Critical Surveyand Green Letters.
