Dr Marta F. Suarez

Dr Marta F Suarez is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she teaches on topics of culture and history through film and other screen media. With a PhD in Screen Studies, her research engages with speculative fiction, transmedia narratives, and the intersections of gender, race and class in contemporary screens, including television and videogames. Among others, she has led and taught units on screenwriting, race on screen, power and culture, film language, and transmedia narratives. She is editor for Open Screens, the academic journal connected to BAFTSS (British Association of Film and Screen Studies), and collaborates with Vector, the critical journal connected to BSFA (British Science Fiction Association). Alongside some work on Spanish and Argentinean cinema, she has published on The Walking Dead (2010-2022), and reviewed for the Science Fiction Research Association television series such as The OA (2016-2019) or Another Life (2019-2021). Currently, she has work forthcoming on Diablero (2018-2020), The Witcher Universe, The Expanse (2015-2022), and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (2022). In 2008 she won the Creative Writing Award “Ana Maria Matute”, an annual international award organized by Torremozas, who published the piece later that same year.