Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at AUT. She specialises in research on the horror and fantasy genres in literature, film, and media, and has published widely in these areas, including books such as "Consuming Gothic: Food and Horror in Film" (2017) and "Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media" (2019). In her work, she focuses particularly on matters related to the body, adaptation, popular iconography, disability, technology, transhumanism, consumer culture, history, and eco-environmental matters. Prof. Piatti-Farnell is the President of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia, and Coordinator of the Australasian Horror Studies Network.

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