About

Ianna Hawkins Owen (he/none) is an advanced assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley; areas of interest include African diaspora theory, asexuality, failure, and critical eating studies. Owen’s first monograph, Ordinary Failure: Diaspora’s Limits and Longings, is under contract with Duke University Press; additional work appears in Social Text, Qui Parle, Feminist Review, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (vols. 1 and 2), Post45 Contemporaries, and more. His second manuscript-in-progress, This Time Without Feeling: Reading Black Asexual Affects, is supported by a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award. Concurrent projects include Communion: Queer and Trans Memorial and Mourning (a seasonal storytelling gathering) and Write Back Soon (a free interactive fiction in collaboration with Ananth Shastri and Art Twink). 

To avoid common misspellings of this name, please note:

• Ianna is the first name and the first letter is an “i” (not an “L”)

• Hawkins is the middle name and it ends with an “s” (there is no “g”)

• Owen is the last name and it ends with an “n” (there is no “s”)