Alexander Ian Olney, Ph.D.
Biographical Note
Dr. Ian Olney is an Associate Professor of English at York College of Pennsylvania, where he teaches film studies. He created the Film Studies Minor at York College in 2004 and serves as the Faculty Advisor to the YCP Film Society, which was recognized by the Student Senate as an official student organization in 2006. In 2005, he established the annual Humanities Film Series, a department-sponsored, interdisciplinary program designed to promote heightened awareness of and serious dialogue about cinema on campus and in the community. At the national level, he currently serves as the Vice-President of the Literature/Film Association, a position to which he was elected in 2009. Dr. Olney's scholarly interests include European cinema, the horror film, American independent film, and cinema in the twentieth-century American literary imagination. He has presented numerous papers at national conferences on topics ranging from Indonesian horror cinema to the independent films of Elaine May. He has also published essays on film adaptation, European cinema, the horror film, and digital cinema in a variety of journals. His first book, Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, will be published in 2012 by Indiana University Press as part of its New Directions in National Cinemas series.
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