About Victoria
Victoria McCollum is from Coleraine (Northern Ireland) and holds a PhD in Cultural & Film Studies; a BA (Hons) in Media Arts; and a PG Cert in Higher Education Practice from Ulster University. She has an MA in Film Practice from Queen’s University (Belfast) and a PG Cert in Global Business Leadership and Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. Victoria previously held positions at the BBC and ITV (Northern Ireland), the Irish Film Board (Ireland) and HBO (United States). Before joining Ulster in 2016, she held a position at HBO (Time Warner Inc.), at their headquarters in New York, developing, marketing and promoting HBO's licensed products both within the U.S. and internationally. At HBO, Victoria collaborated on projects with Apple, Cartoon Network, Cinemax, Facebook, New Line Cinema, Sesame Street, Sky Atlantic, Telltale Games, Time Warner, Twitter and Universal Music Group.
​Victoria is a Senior Lecturer (Cinematic Arts) and the Director of Development and External Partnerships in the School of Arts and Humanities at Ulster University. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and serves on various boards of representatives from the arts and cultural sector. In 2023, she was elected to Ulster University's Senate. Victoria has served as a Visiting Lecturer at Kadir Has University (Istanbul), College of Charleston (South Carolina), Syracuse University (New York) and various institutions across India. Victoria has published a number of cutting-edge books, including, Post-9/11 Heartland Horror: Rural Horror Films in an Era of Urban Terrorism (2016); HBO’s Original Voices: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power (2018); Alternative Media in Contemporary Turkey: Sustainability, Activism and Resistance (2018); Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear (2019); Resist! Protest Media and Popular Culture in the Brexit-Trump Era (2020); Bloody Women! Women Directors of Horror (2022); and Blumhouse: The New House of Horror (2022). She is Co-Investigator on a Higher Education Research Capital (HERC) project that has delivered £536k investment on a new Virtual Production Facility at Ulster.
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When she’s not busy with her academic work, Victoria loves spending time with her dogs and horses, enjoying their company and the peace of the outdoors. She is a qualified equestrian coach and a current student of Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL).