Ian Olney, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Nebraska, Lincoln (2003)
• M.A., University of South Carolina, Columbia (1997)
• B.A., Rhodes College (1995)

Credentials

• Film and Media Arts
• Programmer, Humanities Film Series
• York College Director of the Literature/Film Association
• Faculty Advisor, York College Film and Media Society

Courses

• Introduction to Film and Film History
• Literature and Film
• Screenwriting
• Film Genres, Directors, Periods, and National Cinemas
• Film Theory and Criticism

Research Interests

• European Cinema
• The Horror Film
• American Film Comedy
• Cinema in the Twentieth Century Literary Imagination

Honors

• Speaker, International Symposium on Euro Horror, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), 2013
• Keynote Speaker, IRIS Film Festival (Huntingdon, PA), 2009

Recent Publications

• The Films of Jess Franco (co-edited with Antonio Lázaro-Reboll), Wayne State University Press, 2018
• Zombie Cinema, Rutgers University Press, 2017
• Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University Press, 2013