Alison Rudd provides a comparative analysis of the way the gothic has provided writers from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand with a means to express the anxieties of postcolonial experience and the traumatic legacies of colonialism. She covers a diverse terrain of well-known contemporary writers, including Derek Walcott, Shani Mootoo, Margaret Atwood, Peter Carey, and Keri Hulme.

Dr Alison Rudd is Senior Assistant Academic Registrar at the University of the West of England. She has also worked as an associate lecturer with the Open University and as a part-time lecturer at the University of Northampton.