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
Born1980 (age 43–44)
Board member ofGothic Association of New Zealand and Australia
Academic background
Alma materLoughborough University
Academic work
InstitutionsAuckland University of Technology

Academic career

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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

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Books

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell". Auckland University of Technology. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Banana : a global history / Lorna Piatti-Farnell". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Lorna Piatti-Farnell". The European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH). Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  4. ^ "New Professors and Associate Professors". Auckland University of Technology. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia Incorporated". New Zealand Business Number. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Executive Committee". Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  7. ^ "About GANZA". Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia. Retrieved 30 December 2020.