Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is an Irish academic who specializes in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies. She is Reader in Film Studies and Co-Director of the Popular Screen Cultures Network at

Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester Metropolitan University is located in the centre of Manchester, England. The university has 40,000 students and over 4,000 members of staff. It is home to four faculties (Arts and Humanities, Business and Law, Health and Education ...

, and was chair of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies from 2021 until 2022. Among her works are '' The Worlds of Back to the Future'' (2010) and ''Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture'' (2019), the latter for which she won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction.

Biography

She obtained her BA in Arts (History and Politics) and MA in American Studies from

University College Dublin University College Dublin (), commonly referred to as UCD, is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest ...

, before obtaining her MA in Higher Education at

and PhD in English at

Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ...

; her doctoral dissertation was ''I am the Dark Mirror; the vampire of my own heart": the postmodern vampire in fiction, film and culture 1975-2008'' (2009). She later joined Manchester Metropolitan University, eventually becoming Reader in Film Studies. As an academic, she specializes in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies. She won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction for her book ''Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture''. She served as chair of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies from 2021 until 2022. She was a 2023 winner of the

British Association for American Studies The British Association for American Studies is a learned society in the field of American studies. It was founded in 1955. It produces the '' Journal of American Studies'', ''American Studies in Britain'', ''US Studies Online'', BAAS Paperbacks, ...

Research Assistance Awards for her project "It’s About Time: the creative partnership of

Robert Zemeckis Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing a range of successful and influential movies, often blending cutting-edge visual effects with storytelling. He has received several accolades incl ...

and

Bob Gale Michael Robert Gale (born May 25, 1951) is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, film producer and director. He is best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film ''Back to the Future'' with his writing partner Robert Zemecki ...

". and winner of a 2023 Harry Ransom Research Fellowship at the

Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe ...

. In addition to teaching, she is also Co-Director of the Popular Screen Cultures Network at

. and Series Co-Editor of ''Multiplexities: Popular Screen Cultures''. She has also appeared as a commentator and interviewee for the BBC, TG4, and TRT World, as well as a documentary consultant. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She describes herself as "a huge music fan with eclectic taste from Irish traditional fusion to classic rock (and Hair/Heavy Metal), ho alsofoster a particular love of all things rooted in the 1980s (including its music and film scores!)".

Bibliography

*''Our Monstrous (s)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity'' (2009) *''The Worlds of

Back to the Future ''Back to the Future'' is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. Set in 1985 ...

'' (2010) *''Clive Barker: Dark imaginer'' (2017) *''Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture'' *(ed. with Bernice M. Murphy) ''Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion'' (2022)

Filmography

References

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