Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Lorna Piatti-Farnell (born 1980) is an academic in New Zealand who researches popular media and cultural history. She is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).^[1]

Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Born	1980 (age 44–45)
Board member of	Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia
Academic background
Alma mater	Loughborough University
Academic work
Institutions	Auckland University of Technology

Academic career

Lorna Piatti-Farnell was born in 1980.^[2] She was educated at Loughborough University, Leicestershire, graduating in 2009 with a PhD.^[1] She was employed by De Montfort University and Bishop Grosseteste University prior to moving to New Zealand where she joined AUT in 2010,^[3] being promoted to full professor, effective 1 January 2020.^[4]

Piatti-Farnell founded the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) in 2014^[5] and is its president.^[6] The organisation facilitates interdisciplinary sharing of all aspect of Gothic culture.^[7]

Selected works

Books

• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (2011). Food and culture in contemporary American fiction. Routledge. ISBN 9781138548039.
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (2014). The vampire in contemporary popular literature. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-50157-3.
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee, eds. (12 February 2018), New directions in 21st century gothic the gothic compass, New York, N.Y.: Routledge (published 2015), ISBN 9781138547759
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (15 April 2016), Banana: A global history, Reaktion Books Ltd (published 2016), ISBN 978-1-78023-571-4
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (10 March 2017). Consuming gothic: Food and horror in film. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-45051-7.
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee, eds. (2018), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, ISBN 9781138048430
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (2019). Gothic afterlives: Reincarnations of horror in film and popular media. Lanham: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-7822-6.

Articles

• McAllister, Margaret; Brien, Donna Lee; Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (February 2018). "Tainted love: Gothic imaging of nurses in popular culture". Journal of Advanced Nursing. 74 (2): 310–317. doi:10.1111/jan.13452. PMID 28910506.
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna (12 February 2019). "Arctic Gothic: Genre, folklore, and the cinematic horror landscape of Dead Snow (2009)". Studies in European Cinema. 18: 76–85. doi:10.1080/17411548.2019.1574121. ISSN 1741-1548. S2CID 194192895.
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee (1 September 2019). "Contemporary popular culture studies". Australasian Journal of Popular Culture. 8 (2): 139–141. doi:10.1386/ajpc_00001_2. ISSN 2045-5852. S2CID 212805936.
• Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; King, Emerald L. (18 March 2020). "Dream Cultures". M/C Journal. 23 (1). doi:10.5204/mcj.1647. ISSN 1441-2616.