Andy Hageman

Andy Hageman is a professor of English and the director of the Center for Ethics and Public Engagement at Luther College. He researches and teaches ecohorror film and literature, David Lynch’s cinema, and intersections of speculative fiction and race. Most recently, he has published an essay on SF ecocinema and ideology, co-written with Regina Kanyu Wang, and another on pedagogical practices of rethinking climate change through weird fiction. He lives in Decorah, Iowa, ancient home of the seven-foot-long sea scorpion Pentecopterus decorahensis, with his partner and two children, who are just beginning to explore Stephen King’s stories.