Sorcha Ní Fhlainn FHEA is an Irish academic who specializes in vampire fiction, horror film, and gothic studies.
Among her works are The Worlds of Back to the Future (2010) and Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture (2019), the latter for which she won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction.
She obtained her BA in Arts (History and Politics) and MA in American Studies from University College Dublin, before obtaining her MA in Higher Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin;[1] her doctoral dissertation was I am the Dark Mirror; the vampire of my own heart": the postmodern vampire in fiction, film and culture 1975-2008 (2009).
[1] She won the 2020 Lord Ruthven Award in Non-Fiction for her book Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture.
[1] She was a 2023 winner of the British Association for American Studies Research Assistance Awards for her project "It’s About Time: the creative partnership of Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale".