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Julia Echeverría
Dr. Julia Echeverría is an Associate Professor of English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She is the author of Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre (Routledge, 2024) and has published academic articles and book chapters on the epidemic horror genre, transnational filmmakers such as Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro, and female prison television series from a cosmopolitan perspective. She is also co-editor of Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge, 2025), alongside María del Mar Azcona and Pablo Gómez-Muñoz. Her current research focuses on the representation of spaces and places in the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos.
Biographic Note
Dr. Julia Echeverría is an Associate Professor of English Studies at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She is the author of Epidemic Cinema: The Rise of a Genre (Routledge, 2024) and has published academic articles and book chapters on the epidemic horror genre, transnational filmmakers such as Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro, and female prison television series from a cosmopolitan perspective. She is also co-editor of Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema (Routledge, 2025), alongside María del Mar Azcona and Pablo Gómez-Muñoz. Her current research focuses on the representation of spaces and places in the cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos.
Kate Egan
Kate Egan is Assistant Professor in Film and Media at Northumbria University. She is the author of Trash or Treasure? Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007), Cultographies: The Evil Dead (2011), and (with Martin Barker, Tom Philips and Sarah Ralph) Alien Audiences (2016), as well as co-editor of Cult Film Stardom (2013), And Now for Something Completely Different (2020) and Researching Historical Screen Audiences (2022). She is also co-editor (with Shellie McMurdo and Laura Mee) of the Hidden Horror Histories book series (LUP), co-investigator (alongside Cat Lester) of the AHRC Youth and Horror Network, and is currently working on Remembering Ghostwatch: Horror, Childhood, Technology and the Home and (with James Rendell) Researching Horror Fans and Audiences in the Twenty-First Century.
Biographic Note
Kate Egan is Assistant Professor in Film and Media at Northumbria University. She is the author of Trash or Treasure? Censorship and the Changing Meanings of the Video Nasties (2007), Cultographies: The Evil Dead (2011), and (with Martin Barker, Tom Philips and Sarah Ralph) Alien Audiences (2016), as well as co-editor of Cult Film Stardom (2013), And Now for Something Completely Different (2020) and Researching Historical Screen Audiences (2022). She is also co-editor (with Shellie McMurdo and Laura Mee) of the Hidden Horror Histories book series (LUP), co-investigator (alongside Cat Lester) of the AHRC Youth and Horror Network, and is currently working on Remembering Ghostwatch: Horror, Childhood, Technology and the Home and (with James Rendell) Researching Horror Fans and Audiences in the Twenty-First Century.
Charlie Ellbé
Charlie is a recent graduate from the M. A. Film Studies program at Concordia University. She is now Coordinator of the Moving Image at the Concordia Visual Media Resources. In the summer of 2010, Charlie received a travel fund to go to the USC and Margaret Herrick Library archives to research her Master's thesis. With access to original documentation from the Hollywood studios and personal writings from art directors of the classical studio era, Charlie was able to complete her thesis on art direction in Universal Studios' horror films of the 1930s with original research. Last summer, she served on the jury of the Montreal Underground Film Festival. She is currently co-editing an anthology of essays on 1940s horror films with Kristopher Woofter and Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare.
Biographic Note
Charlie is a recent graduate from the M. A. Film Studies program at Concordia University. She is now Coordinator of the Moving Image at the Concordia Visual Media Resources. In the summer of 2010, Charlie received a travel fund to go to the USC and Margaret Herrick Library archives to research her Master's thesis. With access to original documentation from the Hollywood studios and personal writings from art directors of the classical studio era, Charlie was able to complete her thesis on art direction in Universal Studios' horror films of the 1930s with original research. Last summer, she served on the jury of the Montreal Underground Film Festival. She is currently co-editing an anthology of essays on 1940s horror films with Kristopher Woofter and Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare.
