Erin Wiegand is a freelance editor and independent scholar whose work spans the worlds of academia, book publishing, and film exhibition. She has worked in the publishing industry for over twenty years, having held in-house roles in both acquisitions and production editing. She now provides a range of editorial services to publishers as well as academic authors, including copyediting, developmental editing, and book proposal consultations.
In addition to her work as an editor, she has been deeply engaged with film studies and film programming for many years, having particular interests in genre, documentary, horror, and exploitation films. Her writing has been published in several journals and edited collections (see Publications for more details). She is working on her first book, based on her PhD thesis, 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.
She has produced film events since 2018, including an eclectic range of single screenings as well as mini-festivals and all-day marathons. She is the co-founder of Cinemania, a UK-based series of film screenings and events celebrating weird and fantastic genre films from around the world. For more information on her work as a film programmer and event producer, see Film Programming.
To get in touch, you can email her at erinwiegand [at] gmail [dot] com.