Erin Harrington

Erin Harrington is a lecturer in critical and cultural theory at the University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror (Routledge, 2017). Recent publications and works in progress consider genre in the New Zealand web series Ao-terror-oa , televised funeral practice in the reality series The Casketeers , female-helmed horror anthologies, the appropriation of horror comedy mockumentary series Wellington Paranormal by the New Zealand Police, theatrical adaptations of Evil Dead , and the affective potentials, aesthetics and rituals of slow horror. She also works as a theatre and arts critic, and appears regularly as a speaker and panelist.