Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Ph.D., is professor of media and cultural studies at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at Curtin University (Australia), president of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) and the coordinator of the Australasian Horror Studies Network. Her research interests lie at the intersection of film, popular media, and cultural history, and include a focus on corporeality, horror, bio-ethics, disability, eco-environmental studies, technology, superheroes and the Gothic. She has published widely in these areas, including volumes such as Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film (Palgrave, 2017), Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media (Lexington, 2019) and The Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Popular Icons in Twenty-first-century Film and Popular Media (Lexington, 2021). Piatti-Farnell is sole editor of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies book series, as well as co-editor (together with Professor Carl Sederholm) of the Horror Studies series for Lexington Books. She is the principal editor of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. Contact: Auckland University of Technology, 55 Wellesley Street East, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand.