THE SHADOWY TRUTH BEHIND MODERN HORROR
AND GOTHIC TRENDS

Alicia Domínguez is an English philologist with a passion for Gothic literature, Neuroscience and Psychology. As an independent researcher, she has been working on the representations of Female archetypes and the Great Mother in Gothic texts and productions to help others in their personal and professional journeys.
She is the owner of the online magazine “You are Gothic But You Don’t Know It”, and creates online content on her blog and on the online platform, Medium. As a professional language and literature coach, she has been helping people achieve their language targets for over 20 years.
She has a short story in a flash fiction Spanish anthology called Crónicas Microvampíricas, concurso de microrelatos sobre vampiros and  a collaborative book called Diario de Madres Escritoras II, un nuevo comienzo, both published by Diversidad Literaria.
She is currently working on a Critical Essay that will be part of the collection Women in Supernatural, Critical Essays organized by Susan Nylander and Amanda Taylor that will be published by McFarland Publishing.

Tugce Kutlu completed her undergraduate education in Radio, Television and Film at Ankara University, and received another BA in International Relations from Anadolu University.

She completed her MA in Film Studies at University College London (UCL) under a scholarship. She wrote her dissertation on grief in 21st-Century horror films supervised by Professor Susanne Kord at UCL. She wrote her thesis on 21st-century Turkish cinema and power relations for her second MA at Ankara University.

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Her works  I am not Carrie: Rebellious Girls of Horror Cinema’s New Era  and The rule of the weird: power relations in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos  have been published by academic journals.

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She has been to numerous academic conferences, presenting her work.

She is currently doing her PhD at Ankara University where she is also a research assistant.