Alexia Kannas

Alexia Kannas is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, where she teaches courses in Cinema Studies. Her research interests include cult and alternative cinemas, cinematic modernism, cross-cultural reception, and music and sound in film and television. She is the author of Deep Red (Columbia University Press/Wallflower, 2017) and Giallo!: Genre, Modernity and Detection in Italian Horror Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2020). In 2017 she was the recipient (with Dr Stephen Gaunson) of a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning at the Australian Awards for University Teaching. Alexia is co-director of the Screen & Sound Cultures Research Group at RMIT.