Erin Cory

Erin Cory is a media scholar committed to arts-oriented activist media praxis. She has taught and researched in the US/Mexico border region, Denmark, Sweden, and Lebanon, and earned her PhD in Communication from the University of California, San Diego (2015). Since beginning work in Scandinavia in 2017, she has focused on transmedia storytelling and artistic co-production in postmigration contexts, working alongside autochthonous creatives and creatives with experiences of forced migration. This work has included producing a podcast in Malmö and a digital storytelling series in Uganda. She is Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication Studies at Malmö University, where she co-directs the MA programme as well as Medea Lab. She enjoys urban rambles, watching Studio Ghibli films with her family, karaoke, and her side-hustle as a DJ.