Fran Pheasant-Kelly is a lecturer in film and television and director of doctoral studies at Wolverhampton University in the United Kingdom. She is also a Leverhulme Fellow and is currently researching the life and work of James Whale. Her research interests include early cinema, abject spaces, fantasy, and medical humanities. She has published around 95 publications, including two monographs, Abject Spaces in American Cinema (2013) and Fantasy Film Post 9/11 (2013), and is co-editor of Spaces of the Cinematic Home (2015), Tim Burton’s Bodies (2021) and Action Heroines in the Twenty-First Century: Sisters in Arms (2025). She is currently working on several monographs, including A History of HIV/AIDS in Film, Television and the Media (2026), The Revenant: Towards a Sensory Cinema (2026) and Critical Perspectives on Kathryn Bigelow (2027).

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