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Gwyneth Peaty

Internet Studies at Curtin University

Areas of expertise

  • - - Digital media
  • - - Popular culture
  • - - Horror and the Gothic

Major works

‘Zombie time: Temporality and living death’ in We’re All Infected: Essays on AMC’s The Walking Dead and the Fate of the Human by D. Keetley (Jefferson, 2014).
‘Hatched from the veins in your arms: Movement, ontology and first-person gameplay in Bioshock’ in Guns, Grenades and Grunts: First Person Shooter Games, edited by G.A. Voorhees, J. Call & K. Whitlock (Bloomsbury, 2012).
‘Infected with life: Neo-supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie’ in Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010, edited by S. Wasson & E. Alder. (Liverpool University Press, 2011).

About me

Dr Gwyneth Peaty is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) in The School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. She completed her BA (1st Class Hons) in Communication Studies and her PhD in English at the University of Western Australia. Gwyneth’s research interests include popular culture, technology, video games, disability, horror, and the Gothic. She is the Reviews Editor of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture and the Australian representative of the Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA).