About

Ianna Hawkins Owen (he/none) is currently an assistant professor of English and African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University. Previously, Owen was an assistant professor of English at Williams College. Owen earned a PhD in African Diaspora Studies at the UC Berkeley and a BA in Africana Studies at CUNY Hunter College. Owen’s areas of interest include African diaspora theory, asexuality, failure, and critical eating studies. Owen’s first book manuscript is titled, Ordinary Failure: Diaspora’s Limits and Longings, and under contract with Duke University Press. His second manuscript, This Time Without Feeling: Reading Black Asexual Affects, is supported by a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award.

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”).