Profile
Dr. Erin Siodmak (she/they) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Erin’s research and teaching interests include vulnerability and insecurity; technology and data; feminist, queer, and critical race theory; media, art, and performance; and urban geographies and production of place. Erin is co-editor of and contributor to Revolting New York: How 400 Years of Riot, Rebellion, Uprising, and Revolution Shaped a City (2018, University of Georgia Press), and author of “I’m a medical doctor and a scientist’: Powerful women, angry men and representational violence in The X-Files” in The Legacy of the X-Files (2023, Bloomsbury Academic). Since 2014, Erin has taught What’s Blood Got to Do With It? Sex, Gender, Race, and Politics in US Horror Films, a course originated at Hunter College with R. Joshua Scannell (The New School). Dr. Siodmak is committed to examining the role that academic and cultural institutions have in the production of power, space and histories of place.