Monika Elbert, Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University, N.J., has published widely on American Gothic, with essays on the Gothic tradition in various authors, such as Hawthorne, Poe, Stowe, Alcott, Spofford, Phelps, Bierce, Jewett, and Wharton. She has co-edited two books on American Gothic: with Wendy Ryden, Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism, University of Alabama Press, 2017, and with Bridget M. Marshall, Transnational Gothic: Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century, Ashgate, Jan. 2013 (Reprinted by Routledge, 2014). Her edited collection Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context (Cambridge University Press) was published in November 2018.