Andrea Wright

Andrea Wright is a Senior Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Development at Edge Hill University's Centre for Learning and Teaching where she has a particular focus on the University's CPD scheme and digital learning technologies. She has a PhD in screen fairytales and taught Film Studies for over 20 years. Fantasy/fairy tales, New Zealand cinema, and television costume drama are central to her research interests. She has written on production design, landscape, gender representation and national identity. Her most recent publications include a chapter on the serial dramas The Frankenstein Chronicles and The Alienist for the edited collection Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Period Drama (Manchester University Press), and an article on Christine Jeffs’ Rain (2001) for a special film edition of Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. Her current research is focused on the work of Jim Henson.