Sonia Lupher earned a Master's degree from Columbia University, where she held a research assistantship with the Women Film Pioneers Project under Dr. Jane Gains. Her dissertation focuses on the ties between women’s horror filmmaking, contemporary women’s genres, and the history of women’s cinema. She is the creator and editor of Cut-Throat Women: A Database of Women Who Make Horror, which aims to shed light on the role of women in horror film production while providing a resource to scholars, fans, and filmmakers. Her work has been published in Critical Quarterly and she has a forthcoming piece in Ecrans.