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Marko Teodorski Editor

Marko Teodorski is Research Associate at the Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade. He graduated in classical archaeology from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and obtained a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Perpignan (France) and University of Tübingen (Germany). His research primarily focuses on psychoanalysis and literature/literary theory, but spreads over a range of topics: monster theories and studies; ancient Greek culture and philosophy, as well as their modern reception; Victorian literature and culture; and ancient Hindu yogic philosophy and practice. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Mirrors: Textuality and Transcendence (2021) and the editor of Monstrosity from the Inside Out (2014).

Simon Bacon is an award-winning author who has written or edited 20+ books on vampires, monsters and horror, including Eco-Vampires (2019), The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022), The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion (2022) and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming). He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions and Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead with Peter Lang.