Alvaro Lopez is a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. His fields are psychoanalysis and media studies within the scope of cultural analysis. Alvaro’s research focuses on the relationship between the media, contemporary transformations in society and culture, and the asymmetrical dynamics binding the US, Europe, and Latin America. In particular, Alvaro examines horror media as a means to analyze the shifting relationship between anxiety and desire across these broad and heterogeneous geopolitical contexts.