Rate My Professor Stacey Abbott

Professor Stacey Abbott is Professor of Film in the Department of Arts, School of Design Arts and Creative Industries at Northumbria University. She joined Northumbria in 2024 after a 20-year career at the University of Roehampton. Her previous appointments include Visiting Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 2019 to 2020, Visiting Professor at Auckland University of Technology in 2017, and Lansdowne Scholar at the University of Victoria, Canada in 2019. Abbott has supervised eight PhDs to completion on diverse topics such as film adaptation through Stanley Kubrick's work, quality television in The Wire, the Friday the 13th franchise, found footage horror, vampires in 21st-century television, feminism and vampires in film and TV, Game of Thrones fandom, and Disney and horror.

Abbott's research specializations encompass horror and Gothic film and television, cult television, the vampire and zombie in film, TV, and other media, developments in special effects, science fiction, romantic comedies, and genre studies. She is the author of key publications including Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), Near Dark (BFI Film Classics, Bloomsbury, 2020), and Celluloid Vampires: Life after Death in the Modern World (University of Texas Press, 2007). Notable co-authored and edited works include TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen with Lorna Jowett (I.B. Tauris, 2013), Global TV Horror with Lorna Jowett (University of Wales Press, 2021), The Cult TV Book (I.B. Tauris, 2010), and TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map to Supernatural with David Lavery (ECW Press, 2011). Recent chapters feature 'Home Among the Headstones: Graveyards in Western Gothic Television' (Manchester University Press, 2024) and 'That Might As Well Be The First Sign of the Apocalypse': Ted Lasso, Trauma, and the Personal Apocalypse (Journal of Popular Television, 2024). She serves on editorial boards for Science Fiction Film and Television (Liverpool University Press), Horror and Gothic Media Cultures (Amsterdam University Press), Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Series, 21st Century Horror (Edinburgh University Press), and Horror Studies (University of Wales Press). Abbott has delivered public lectures at the British Film Institute, British Library, Old Operating Theatre London, St. Bart's Pathology Museum, and Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and is a member of the Miskatonic Institute's Advisory Board. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5, CBC Radio Canada, and TRT World.