Erin Underwood is a film critic, writer, and senior event content producer at MIT Technology Review specializing in storytelling, entertainment, and emerging technology.
Through in-depth reviews, essays, analysis, and conversations, she explores what makes stories work, why they resonate, and how storytelling continues to evolve across film, television, and emerging technologies.
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Erin Underwood is a film critic, writer, and senior event content producer at MIT Technology Review specializing in storytelling, entertainment, and emerging technology.
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Erin Underwood is a writer, editor, content producer, and film critic whose work explores the intersection of storytelling, media, entertainment, and emerging technology. She produces in-depth film and television reviews on her YouTube channel and website, emunderwood.com, where she examines story structure, character development, adaptation, and the craft of filmmaking through both artistic and technological lenses.
Professionally, Erin serves as a senior event content producer at MIT Technology Review, where she develops editorially driven events focused on helping leaders understand the strategic impact of emerging technologies. Her work centers on translating complex innovations into clear, human-centered narratives that explore how technologies such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate technology, immersive media, and advanced computing may reshape organizations, industries, creative work, and society at large. By focusing on the story of the technology, she helps audiences better understand not only the opportunities these technologies create, but also the practical challenges, risks, and human consequences that accompany them.
Erin has edited several anthologies of short science fiction and is a three-time Hugo Award nominee as part of the Journey Planet editorial team. She holds an MFA from the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. Her screenplays have earned awards and honorable mentions in multiple competitions.
She is also active in the science fiction and fan communities, volunteering at conventions and events that support writers, artists, readers, and fandom culture.
