Author: Andy Owens / Iowa

Andrew J. Owens is a Lecturer in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa. His research and teaching interests include global film and television history, media industry studies, contemporary occultism, and LGBTQ+/gender/critical race theories. His book, Desire After Dark: Contemporary Queer Cultures and Occultly Marvelous Media (Indiana University Press, 2021), provides an industrial and cultural history of how modern occult practices have risen to on-screen prominence over the past half-century during moments of profound transnational anxiety surrounding sexual, gender, and racial mores. Owens’ work has also been published in numerous international journals and edited anthologies. He has sat on several Executive Boards of international scholarly organizations, including both the Queer Caucus and Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and currently serves on the Executive Board of Console-ing Passions.