Chris Auld

Chris was appointed to the Film Studies team in September 2009. He teaches on a wide range of modules including Film Genre Case Study (Horror), Cinema in Context, Critical Approaches to Cinema and Identity and Representation. He is also module leader for Undergraduate Study Skills and World Cinemas: Contexts and Cultures.

As part of his expertise in Horror and Science Fiction, Chris is developing his PhD research on 1950s British Horror/Science Fiction focusing on the Quatermass films, their place in discourses on national cinema and their engagement with notions of national identities and the fantastic/uncanny. Other research interests include British Noir, Cult Cinema (especially John Waters), World Cinema and the Gothic in film, television and literature.

Chris has presented well-received papers at the third and fourth Global Monsters and the Monstrous conferences, and he is currently preparing a chapter for a Critical Companion on Adaptation Studies. Before coming to Edge Hill he was awarded an MA in Screen Studies from the University of Manchester, specialising in Val Lewton and the uncanny.