Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

Sorcha Ní Fhlainn 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 Popular Screen Cultures Network at Manchester Metropolitan University, 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 and Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (2019), the latter for which she won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction.

Biography 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; She later joined Manchester Metropolitan University, eventually becoming Reader in Film Studies. She served as chair of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies from 2021 until 2022. and winner of a 2023 Harry Ransom Research Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center. In addition to teaching, she is also Co-Director of the Popular Screen Cultures Network at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has also appeared as a commentator and interviewee for the BBC, TG4, and TRT World, as well as a documentary consultant. Clive Barker: Dark imaginer (2017) Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (ed. with Bernice M. Murphy) Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (2022)

Filmography Year Title Role Source TBA Teen Screams Herself