Education

2016 - PhD - University of East Anglia

Luxury Items: Discourses of Cultural Value in Creating Channel 4 Comedy

https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58414/

Part of the AHRC funded research project, Make Me Laugh.

2009 - MA - University of East Anglia

Thesis title: No Girls Allowed: Gender Politics and the Hollywood Comedy of Judd Apatow and the Frat Pack

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Selected Exhibitions

TBA 004: Church  -  St. Margaret's Church, Norwich, 2020

TBA 003: Merz -  Nunn's Yard, Norwich, 2019  

TBA 002: Occupation  -  St. Mary's Shoe Factory, Norwich, 2019 

TBA 001 -  Nunn's Yard, Norwich, 2019

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Writing 

Mills, Brett with Erica Horton, Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry, 2017, Routledge

Cann, Victoria and Horton, Erica (2015) Transition, crisis and nostalgia: Youth masculinity and postfeminism in contemporary Hollywood, an analysis of Superbad. Boyhood Studies, 8 (2). pp. 5-24.

A Very Special Relationship: Mapping The Transatlanticism of Contemporary Golden Age Quality Comedy written for Critical Studies in Television, Online

Keeping It Real: Some Girls, Reception and Authenticity in British Television Comedy, written for Critical Studies in Television, Online