These are truncated biographies. For fuller descriptions of our Board members' careers and publications, consult their institutional webpages.
Tejaswini Ganti (New York)
Tejwaswini Ganti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Industry (Duke, 2012) and Bollywood: A Guide Book to Popular Hindi Cinema, now in its second edition (Routledge, 2013).
Joan Hawkins (Indiana)
Joan Hawkins is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University. Her research continues to focus on the politics of taste culture, gender and sexuality. She is the author of Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde (Minnesota, 2000) and editor of Downtown Film and TV Culture (Intellect, 2015).
Kevin Heffernan (Southern Methodist)
Kevin Heffernan is an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Ghouls Gimmicks and Gold (Duke, 2007) and was the associate producer and co-screenwriter of the documentaries Divine Trash (1998) and In Bad Taste (1999).
I. Q. Hunter (De Montfort)
I.Q. Hunter is Reader in Film Studies at De Montfort University, and author of British Trash Cinema (BFI, 2013). He is currently writing Cult Film as a Guide to Life (Bloomsbury, 2015), co-writing Psychomania (with Jamie Sherry, Auteur, 2015), and researching a book on screen adaptations of Moby-Dick.
Peter Hutchings (Northumbria)
Peter Hutchings is Professor of Film Studies at Northumbria University. He has published widely on British cinema history and on the international development of the horror genre, including Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film (Manchester, 1993), Dracula (I. B. Tauris, 2003) and The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema (Scarecrow, 2008)
Ernest Mathijs (British Columbia)
Ernest Mathijs is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-author of 100 Cult Films (BFI, 2011), Cult Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), and the author of The Cinema of David Cronenberg: from Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero (Wallflower, 2008). He is also co-editor of the Cultographies series (Columbia UP).
Constance Penley (UC Santa Barbara)
Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013) and The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (Minnesota, 1989).
Eric Schaefer (Emerson College)
Eric Schaefer is an Associate Professor at Emerson College and a film and media historian who specializes in exploitation film and other marginalized cinemas. He is the author of "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959 (Duke, 1999) and editor of the new collection Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution (Duke, 2014).
Dolores Tierney (Sussex)
Dolores Tierney is a Senior Lecturer in Film, and Media at the University of Sussex. She has published widely on transnational imaging practices between Latin America, the U.S. and Spain. Her work includes the edited volume Latsploitation! (Routledge, 2009) and a forthcoming book about transnationalism across Latin American cinema (Edinburgh University Press).
Valerie Wee (National University of Singapore)
Valerie Wee is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, where she teaches media and cultural studies, film history and film theory. Her books include Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes (Routledge, forthcoming) and Teen Media: Hollywood and the Youth Market in the Digital Age (McFarland, 2010).