Heather Oriana Petrocelli

Author / Film Critic / Filmmaker / Scholar / Speaker


Dr. Heather O. Petrocelli is a film critic, writer, and researcher who works with transdisciplinary methods across film studies, queer theory, and public history. This academic foundation, combined with a life-long horror obsession and experience studying, programming, making, and marketing film, informs their debut book Queer for Fear: Horror Film and the Queer Spectator (2023). A post-binary dyke scholar, Heather is especially passionate about engaging with and making visible queer stories and experiences.


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