MEDIA
HIGHLIGHTS
The Museum of Modern Art in New York named a section of its Summer 2022 horror film screening series "Women Make Horror", after Alison's book, Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre​
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Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the New Horror Boom
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Interviewed by the Guardian about Halloween Kills
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Interviewed by the New York Times' Halloween, print-only special
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Guest on Feminist Horror Cinema debate, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour
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SELECTED RECENT PUBLIC TALKS
Professorial Inaugural Lecture, Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds, UK
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Panelist, Video Essays on the History of Japanese Horror Cinema, ASCJ Conference, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
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Keynote Speaker, Now You See Us, Horror Studies Now, Northumbria University, UK
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Keynote Speaker, Nasty Girl, The Norwegian Federation of Film Societies, The Norwegian Cinematheque, Norway
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Keynote speaker, Run Free: The Female Shapeshifter Film, for the Cine–Excess Festival and Film Conference, UK
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Keynote Speaker for the Boris Karloff: The Many Faces of a Film Icon Symposium, Plymouth College of Art, UK
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Invited Speaker, Deranging the Archive, New Voices in Cinephilia, University of Leeds, UK
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Convenor, Reflecting upon DWGHFH, Doing Women’s Film and Television History, University of Sussex, UK
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Panelist, Acts of (Videographic) Speculation: The Aging Woman, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, USA
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Panelist, Political Potentials, Videography: Art and Academia, Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany
​Convenor, Doing Women’s (Global) (Horror) Film History, De–Westernising Horror Cinema, Kings College London, UK
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Invited Speaker, Toward a Feminist Historiography of Horror Cinema, Edinburgh Film Seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Invited speaker, celebrating the life and work of the Godfather of British Horror Film Studies, Peter Hutchings, for BAFTSS
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FESTIVAL COLLABORATIONS
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Invited Speaker, Horror Film as Feminist Archive, The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Germany
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Invited Speaker, Crafting Horror, Ax Wound Film Festival, USA
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Festival Curator, Female Terror strand of the Slash Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
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Panelist, The Rise of the Final Girl, INDIS Film Festival, UK
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Panelist, Women in Horror Film, KurzFilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
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Public lecture, Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, the Kurja Polt Film Festival, Slovenia
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Public lecture, Predator and 1980s Action Cinema, the Offscreen Film Festival, Brussels
Panelist, Women, Horror & Eating, Ax Wound Film Festival, USA
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Tutor, Writing Your First Horror Screenplay workshop, The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Germany
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Introduction & post–film discussion on Prevenge, Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK
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Panelist, Our North: A Season of Films Celebrating Northernness, HOME, Manchester
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Jury Member for Etheria Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA (multiple years)
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Tutor, Writing Your First Horror Screenplay workshop, Kurja Polt Film Festival, Slovenia​
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Jury Member, the Méliès d'argent competition, Leeds International Film Festival
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FURTHER MEDIA APPEARANCES
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Profiled in a long–form television interview on Short Circuit / Kurz Circuit, a film magazine programme for ARTE television, Germany
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​​Interviewed about rubbish consensual sex in contemporary film and telly for the Independent
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​​Interviewed about teen slashers in Paste magazine
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Panelist, Women's History in Horror Film, for Women's History Month, on Vital Culture's Twitch livestream
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Guest on the live television show Osmi Dan, to discuss women in hororr film, on the RTV4 network, Slovenia
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Interviewed for 100 Years of Terror, on women's horror cinema
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PODCAST APPEARANCES
Guest on Episode 43: DWGHFH of The Video Essay podcast
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Guest on the DWGHFH episode of The Cinematologist's podcast
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Guest on the DWGHFH episode of the Horrorama podcast
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Guest on Episode 16: The Lighthouse for the HornBloodFire podcast
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​Guest on the Dearest Sister episode of Ride the Omnibus podcast
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​Guest on Episode 213: Women in Horror Month - Pale Blood and Mirror Mirror for The Film Buds podcast
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Guest on the Teen Horror 18: Cherry Falls episode of The Final Girls podcast
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​Guest on Episode 83: Back From the Dead of The Forgotten Horrors podcast
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Guest on the Nasty Girls: Egomaniac & Censor episode of Not Your Final Girl podcast
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Guest on Episode 88 - Blood Diner: They Call Me Sheetar! for the Good Mourning Nancy podcast
Guest on the Fear Street episode of the Netflix podcast 10 / 10
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Guest on the 1920s and 1930s episode of A Year in Horror Podcast
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Guest on The She Creature episode of the Mental Health Monsters podcast
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​Guest on the Fear Street 1978 and Fear Street 1666 episodes of The Final Girls podcast
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​Guest on the Vampires 11: The Lost Boys episode of The Final Girls podcast
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Guest on Episode 161: Women in Hororr and Pet Sematar for the Film Buds podcast
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Guest on the Female Monsters 01: Island of Lost Souls and Cat People episode of The Final Girls podcast
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Guest on Episode 16, Horror Films and Feminism for the Making It: Women in Film podcast
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​Guest on the Anthill 6: Into the Darkness episode of The Conversation podcast
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Guest on Episode 23 The Beast Within: Dog Soldiers of I Spit on Your Podcast
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