Dr Stella Gaynor is an Associate Lecturer at The University of Salford in the Arts and Media Department, and at Liverpool John Moores University in the Screen School. She has completed her thesis titled Made For TV Monsters: How has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre? She has written a chapter on the global spread of The Walking Dead and FOX International Channels in the forthcoming book Global TV Horror, edited by Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett, and she is a regular blogger for Critical Studies in Television.