Senior Lecturer Film Studies and Media, York St John University
I hold a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London and I'm a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Media at York St John University. I am the co-author of:
Guillermo del Toro: Film as Alchemic Art (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film: Transnational Perspectives (Anthem Press, 2021).
I am currently involved in teaching and writing on popular media and collective memory. Other interests include pedagogy, transnational media and film stardom.
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