Dr Tim Snelson

Tim Snelson is associate professor in media history at the University of East Anglia. Tim’s research addresses the relationships between media, social and medical histories, focusing particularly on popular film and media genres (horror, true crime, psychological thrillers); media and mental health; youth and digital media; audiences and cinemagoing; material cultures; and screen heritage. His research has been published in journals including Media History, History of the Human Sciences, Science Museum Group Journal and Cultural Studies, and in monographs Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). He was primary investigator on two recent Arts and Humanities Research Council grants on media and mental health, researched and delivered in collaboration with the British Science Association and Science Museum Group.