Elena Gorfinkel is a film scholar and critic based in London. She is the author/editor of five books, most recently Wanda (Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics, 2025); and The Prop, with John David Rhodes (Fordham, 2025). Her research concerns marginal and independent cinemas, including adult, experimental, & underground film, particularly from the 1960s to the present.

She is Reader in Film Studies at King's College London. Prior to King's, she was Associate Professor of Art History & Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University.


 email:   elena.gorfinkel [at] kcl.ac.uk