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Matt Hills
Matt Hills is a writer and senior lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. In his career he focused significantly on media, fandom and fan studies.

Life and Works
He worked for more than a decade at Cardiff University, beginning as a Lecturer and leaving as a Reader.

Then he became Professor of Film and TV Studies at Aberystwyth University and in July 2016 He joined the University of Huddersfield as Professor of Media and Journalism.

With Professor Cornel Sandvoss he became co-director of the Centre for Participatory Culture, and supervise a number of PhD students in this area.

He is the author of six sole-authored research monographs, like Fan Cultures (2002) and The Pleasures of Horror (2005), and has contributed to a wide range of books including edited volumes on Cultural Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Stardom.

His research is directed media fandom, audience study, cult film and TV, including programmes such as Sherlock, Doctor Who and telefantasy/science fiction TV more broadly. His theoretical approaches use psychoanalysis and psychosocial theory as well as drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault.