Mark David Ryan is an Associate Professor in screen and media industries and a Chief Investigator for the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC). He is an expert in screen industries research, Australian cinema, Australian genre cinema and horror movies, and digital media. Ryan is a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project, Australian Cultural & Creative Activity: A Population & Hotspot Analysis (2017-2020). He is the co-editor of Australian Genre Film (with Kelly McWilliam, 2021, Routledge), Australian Screen in the 2000s (2017, Palgrave Macmillan), and the Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2 (2015, Intellect).