Amanda Howellis a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia, where she teaches courses in screen history and aesthetics. Her research focuses on gender, genre, screen aesthetics and cultures in a sociohistorical frame, with a recurrent focus on horror as well as other body genres such as action and the musical. Her publications on the Gothic and horror have appeared in journals such asContinuum, Gothic StudiesandGenreand she is the author ofA Different Tune: Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action(2015).
Lucy Bakerteaches in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia,across fields of sociology, cultural and media studies. Her research focuses primarily on adaptations, gender and fans. Her work has been published in journals includingContinuum, Journal of Girlhood StudiesandThe Journal of Fandom Studies. Her monographMedia and Gender Adaptation: Regendering, Critical Creation & the Fans(forthcoming, 2023) analyses adaptations and fanfic that change the gender of an original character and looks at how fans respond to those works.