Dr Patricia MacCormack is Reader in English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She has published extensively on Guattari, Blanchot, Serres, Irigaray, feminism, queer theory, teratology, body modification, posthuman theory, animal rights and horror film. Her work includes ‘Inhuman Ecstasy’ (Angelaki), ‘Becoming-Vulva.’ (New Formations) ‘The Great Ephemeral Tattooed Skin.’ (Body and Society) ‘Necrosexuality’ (Queering the Non/Human) ‘Unnatural Alliances’ (Deleuze and Queer Theory) ‘Vitalistic FeminEthics’ (Deleuze and Law) and ‘Cinemasochism: Time, Space and Submission.’ (The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy). She is the author of Cinesexuality and the co-editor of The Schizoanalysis of Cinema. She is currently writing on post-human ethics. She has also appeared in a number of extras on dvds such as Suspiria, the films of Jean Rollin, a range of Redemption films and the Video Nasty Complete Guide