Rosemary Overell is Senior Lecturer in Media, Film & Communication at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Affective Intensities in Extreme Music Scenes (2014) and has written about grindcore and extreme metal in Continental Thought & Theory and Popular Music History. She is on the Editorial Board of Metal Music Studies. Overell works at the nexus of feminist cultural studies and psychoanalysis and has also published on film and social media.