Erin Harrington is an academic and critic who works as senior lecturer at University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha. Her arts criticism has appeared in print and on air in a variety of academic and popular spaces, including Theatreview, The Pantograph Punch, RNZ National, Stuff and The Playmarket Annual. She appears regularly as a speaker and panelist, and is the author of Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror (Routledge, 2017).