Sladja Blazan is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Her areas of research include speculative fiction, critical posthumanism, critical refugee studies, and migration as a literary topic. 

1.Haunting and Nature: An Introduction.-2. Microgothic: Microbial Aesthetics of Haunted Nature.-3. Black Mold, White Extinction: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, The Haunting of Hill House, "Gray Matter," and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shunned House".-4.Vegetomorphism: Exploring the Material Within the Aesthetics of the EcoGothic in Stranger Things and Annihilation.-5. An Ecology of Abject Women: Frontier Gothicism and Ecofeminism in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.-6. Alligators in the Living Room: Terror and Horror in the Capitalocene.-7. Haunted Technonature: Anthropocene Coloniality in Ng Yi-Sheng's Lion City (2018).-8. Haunted Nature, Haunted Humans: Intelligent Trees, Gaia, and the Apocalypse Meme.-9.The Global Poltergeist: COVID-19 Hauntings