Dr Claire Henry

Dr Claire Henry is the author of Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and the BFI Film Classics title on David Lynch’s Eraserhead (BFI/Bloomsbury, 2023), and co-author of Screening the Posthuman (with Missy Molloy and Pansy Duncan, Oxford University Press, 2023). She has published in journals including Journal of Media Practice and Education, Journal of Digital Media & Policy, Cine-Excess, Porn Studies, Open Cultural Studies, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Senses of Cinema, Studies in European Cinema, Ctrl-Z: New Media Philosophy, and Frames Cinema Journal. She has also published chapters in edited collections including Adult Themes: British Cinema and the “X” Certificate in the Long 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2023), Australian Screen in the 2000s (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond: Contemporary Scandinavian and Anglophone Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Claire is an award-winning university educator and HEA Senior Fellow with 15 years of experience teaching screen and media studies in Australia and internationally. She joined Flinders University in 2022 from Massey University (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand), where she was Senior Lecturer in Digital Media Production. Prior to that, she taught at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and The University of Melbourne, RMIT University, and Monash University in Melbourne. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary cinema, the representation and regulation of sex and violence on screen, and genre and auteur studies.