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Appendices
Biographical note
Valeria Villegas Lindvall is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Gothenburg and specializes in Latin American horror film with a feminist and decolonial focus. Reviews Editor for MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and member of the advisory board of MAI Imprint at Punctum Books. She has collaborated in several publications, most prominently at Rolling Stone Mexico, Women Make Horror (2020), The Body Onscreen in the Digital Age (2021) and Folk Horror: New Global Pathways (2023).
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