Émilie von Garan is a Toronto based critical writer and researcher exploring the intersection of gender, technologies and architecture in film and moving image art. She is a PhD in Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Her interests include horror theory, art criticism, and the ways in which art and horror share aesthetic, structural, and conceptual strategies.

Dr Stella Marie Gaynor is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Rethinking Horror in the New Economies of Television (2022, Palgrave MacMillan), and she has published journals and chapters in edited collections exploring the global reach of The Walking Dead, political commentary in Black Summer, and religious cults in The Returned. Her current research project explores murder and serial killer stories across media, with publications exploring nostalgia in Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, retelling the Bundy case from the perspective of women, and true crime podcasting and social media. Stella writes and hosts The Murder Media Podcast, which is available on Spotify, Amazon Music, and iTunes.

Lecturer Jane Giles was programmer at the Scala from 1988-1992, and has since worked in film distribution and exhibition for the likes of Tartan Films, the ICA and the BFI. She teaches at the London Film School and the National Film & Television School, and is the author of four books including The Scala Cinema, 1978-1993, for publication in September 2018 by FAB Press.

Michael Gingold has been covering the world of horror cinema since high school, when he started publishing the fanzine SCAREAPHANALIA. He spent 28 years as part of the staff of FANGORIA magazine and its website—beginning as a writer in 1988, and serving as associate editor, then managing editor and finally editor-in-chief. He is currently an editor and/or writer for RUE MORGUE, SCREAM, BIRTH.MOVIES.DEATH, DELIRIUM and Blumhouse.com. Michael has done liner notes for a number of Blu-ray and DVD releases, appeared in numerous documentaries and disc featurettes, and taken part in several DVD/Blu-ray audio commentaries. Among his screenplay credits are SHADOW: DEAD RIOT (Fever Dreams), LEECHES! (Rapid Heart Pictures) and the upcoming THE DOLL for director Dante Tomaselli. He currently hosts monthly Prints of Darkness screenings of classic horror films on 35mm at the Greater NY Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

Anne Golden is on the Creative Arts faculty of John Abbott College, and is Artistic Director of Groupe Intervention Video, an artist-run distribution, exhibition and production centre for videos directed by women. She is an independent curator and writer whose programs include Horizontal Holds/Vertical Views: Recent Canadian Art Video (Musée National du Québec, 2001) and Seuils/Thresholds (Edges Festival, Victoria, 2006). She has also curated programs for Vtape (Toronto) and Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax). Golden has made 12 videos since 1991. Among these are FAT CHANCE (1994), BIG GIRL TOWN (1998), SOMME (2005) and FROM THE ARCHIVES OF VIDÉO POPULAIRE (2007).

Leo Goldsmith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, The New School. He is the author of a forthcoming book on the filmmaker Peter Watkins (Verso), a frequent contributor to 4Columns, and an advisor to the programming team of the New York Film Festival.

David J. Goodwin is the Assistant Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and was a Frederick Lewis Allen Room scholar at the New York Public Library from 2020 to 2023. He is a past commissioner and chairperson of the Jersey City Historic Preservation Commission and a former Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy board member. His first book, Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, received the J. Owen Grundy History Award in 2018.

Matt passionately believes that literature and related arts make considerable contributions to our communities and he is especially interested in the ways in which the works and ideas of the past not only underpin much of what we do and think, but also can yield fresh insight regarding contemporary issues. His research thus considers the intersection of literature, art and critical theory from the eighteenth century through to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the works Gothic writers and artists working across a range of media. He has published widely on Alan Moore and the Gothic, with a particular emphasis on Moore’s engagement with HP Lovecraft.

Patricia Grisafi, PhD is a New York City based freelance writer and educator. She received her doctorate in English from Fordham University, where she also taught courses on horror, the gothic, and representations of mental illness in film and literature. She is the author of Breaking Down Plath (Jossey-Bass), an introduction to Sylvia Plath for middle and high school students. Her cultural criticism has been featured in NBCThink, Salon, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vice, The Mary Sue, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.