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Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
FHEA
NationalityIrish
Awards
Academic background
Education
ThesisPostmodern Vampires in Fiction, Culture, and Film (2019)
Academic work
Main interestsvampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn FHEA 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 Screen Studies Network at Manchester Metropolitan University,[1] 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

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She obtained her BA in Arts (History and Politics) and MA in American Studies from University College Dublin, before obtaining her MA in Higher Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin;[1] 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).[2] She later joined Manchester Metropolitan University, eventually becoming Reader in Film Studies.[1]

As an academic, she specializes in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies.[1] She won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction for her book Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture.[3] She served as chair of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies from 2021 until 2022.[1] She was a 2023 winner of the British Association for American Studies Research Assistance Awards for her project "It’s About Time: the creative partnership of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale".[4] In addition to teaching, she is also Co-Director of the Screen Studies Network at Manchester Metropolitan University.[1] She has also appeared as a commentator and interviewee for the BBC, TG4, and TRT World, as well as a documentary consultant.[1]

She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.[1]

She describes herself as "a huge music fan with eclectic taste from Irish traditional fusion to classic rock (and Hair/Heavy Metal), [who also] foster[s] a particular love of all things rooted in the 1980s (including its music and film scores!)".[1]

Bibliography

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  • Our Monstrous (s)kin: Blurring the Boundaries Between Monsters and Humanity (2009)
  • The Worlds of Back to the Future (2010)[5][6]
  • Clive Barker: Dark imaginer (2017)
  • Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (2019)[7]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Source
TBA Teen Screams Herself [1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn". Manchester Metropolitan University. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  2. ^ Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha (2009). 'I am the Dark Mirror; the vampire of my own heart': the postmodern vampire in fiction, film and culture 1975-2008 (PhD thesis). Trinity College, Dublin. OCLC 842522778.
  3. ^ "Lord Ruthven Awards Winners By Year". sfadb. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  4. ^ "BAAS Award Winners 2023". British Association for American Studies. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
  5. ^ "The Worlds of Back to the Future." California Bookwatch, Oct. 2011. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A270371344/LitRC?u=anon~57f39de2&sid=sitemap&xid=ee3d0182. Accessed 4 July 2024.
  6. ^ Wittenberg, David (2014). "The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, ed. (review)". Science Fiction Film and Television. 7 (1): 140–143. ISSN 1754-3789 – via Project MUSE.
  7. ^ Simmons, David (2021). "Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture . By Sorcha Ní Fhlainn". Gothic Studies. 23 (1): 118–120. doi:10.3366/gothic.2021.0083. ISSN 1362-7937.
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