I am a Principal Lecturer in Film and Television in the School of Creative Arts, as well as the School's Research and Admissions Tutor, overseeing applications for research degrees across all disciplines and supporting current research students and supervisors. As Media Research Group Leader, I co-ordinate research activities across Film and other areas. I joined Creative Arts after completing an AHRC funded PhD on horror film remakes at De Montfort University, and I previously taught at De Montfort and Birmingham City University. 

I have published widely on horror media, seriality, remaking and adaptation, including two monographs: The Shining (Liverpool University Press, 2017) and Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Film Remake (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). I am also interested in analogue aesthetics in the contemporary horror genre, and the representation of women and women's bodies in horror cinema, and much of my current research focuses on this area. 

I co-founded and co-convene the Horror Studies SIG of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), and am the founding co-editor of the series Hidden Horror Histories (Liverpool University Press). I have presented my research at national and international academic conferences, and to public audiences at film festivals, societies, screenings and events. I have have contributed expertise to international media outlets including The Washington Post, and to film releases from Eureka Entertainment.

I am happy to help with queries from potential Masters by Research and PhD applicants across all areas of Creative Arts research, and open to supervision queries in any area related to my research interests.

• Adaptation, film remaking, seriality and other forms of cinematic and cultural recycling
• Horror cinema and other horror media
• Contemporary US film
• Film and media franchises, marketing and promotion
• Women, body horror and medical horror
• Analogue media and its reappropriation
• Cult film and TV
• New approaches to genre