Erin Wiegand is a film programmer and independent scholar with particular interests in genre, documentary, and exploitation films. She has been producing film events since 2018, including an eclectic range of single screenings as well as mini-festivals and all-day marathons. Her writing has been published in several journals and edited collections. She is working on her first book, based on her PhD research, tentatively titled Mondo Movies: A Genre History of Disreputable Documentaries; her next research project explores “white coater” sex-education films and erotic documentaries of the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Erin has also worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, having acquired and edited a wide range of nonfiction books for Pelagic Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, and North Atlantic Books.
