Sarah E. Maier is professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Brunswick. Canada, and was named University Teaching Scholar in 2006. She has been working on the Bronts for the bicentennials including for The Lost Manuscripts (2018). Maier's past work includes Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century (2019), co-edited with Brenda Ayres. Her other current interests include Sherlock Holmes, Neo-Victorian vampires, adaptation and Neo-Victorian young adult fiction. Brenda Ayres is professor of English teaching a wide array of English online courses through Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. She has edited several collections of essays including Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-First Century (2019) with Sarah E. Maier, Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash (2018) and Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century (2017). She is the author of Betwixt and Between: The Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft (2017).
Maier, Ayres, and the other authors in Neo-Gothic Narratives have taken an important and calculated step forward in a novel approach to the Gothic. I imagine other readers interested in the Gothic and adjacent fields (especially those concerned with contemporary work) will similarly feel that this volume is a benefit to the field and in understanding how representations of the Gothic have evolved into our modern world and ways in which scholarship of the genre might progress — Wesley Scott McMaster