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. 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.
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.
Erin has also 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. For more information, please visit Erin Wiegand Editorial Services.
