Lorna Piatti-Farnell, PhD, is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also Director of the Popular Culture Research Centre. Her research interests lie at the intersection of film, popular media, and cultural history, and include a focus on corporeality, horror, technology, bio-ethics, eco-environmental studies, consumer culture, and the Gothic. She has published widely in these areas, including volumes such as Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film ( 2017) and Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media (editor, 2019).