Ianna Hawkins Owen

Ianna Hawkins Owen, he/none, is an advanced assistant professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley. Owen’s first monograph, Ordinary Failure: Diaspora’s Limits & Longings, is under contract with Duke University Press. Owen has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, & he recently received a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award to support his second book project, This Time Without Feeling: Reading Black Asexual Affects. Prior to joining the faculty of GWS in 2024, Owen held a UC President's Postdoc in English & faculty appointments at Williams College & Boston University. 

Owen currently organizes a seasonal storytelling series on grief practice called Communion: Queer & Trans Memorial & Mourning. He also makes games, poetry, & aspires to join a floorball team.

WEBSITE

www.iannahawkinsowen.com

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• "With Abandon/Not Abandoned: Blackness, Immobility, & Care," Cultural Critique (issue theme: Is Sex Passé?) - forthcoming
• “Dead Tired,” Qui Parle (issue theme: Ordinariness), vol. 33, no. 1. URL: https://doi.org/10.1215/10418385-11125495
• “‘Freedom Lovers’: Blackness, Asexuality, Abolition,” Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Revised & Expanded Edition), eds. KJ Cerankowski & Megan Milks. Routledge, 2024. URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003178798-32/freedom-lovers-ianna-hawkins-owen
• “More: Asexuality, Feedism, Cake,” Social Text, vol. 40, no. 2. (Crompton-Noll Award for Best LGBTQ Studies Article: Honorable Mention) URL: https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9631159 
• “It Me: Annotation and Restraint,” Post45: Contemporaries Series (series theme: Other People’s Objects). URL: https://post45.org/2019/12/it-me-annotation-and-restraint/
• “Still, Nothing: Notes on Mammy and Black Asexual Possibility,” Feminist Review, vol. 120, no. 1.  URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0140-9