Amanda Jo Hobson, Ph.D. (she/they) is a scholar, practitioner, educator, and coach that prioritizes education, justice, and trauma-informed care.  In her role as a student affairs administrator, her work focuses on issues of social justice and equity in higher education, and she regularly presents about a wide-range of diversity issues, including gender justice, bystander intervention, and sexual violence. Their doctoral work at Ohio University’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts centered on issues of intersectionality of identity using sexuality and the erotic within feminist genre film with a specific emphasis on horror films and pornography, and their dissertation was titled “Envisioning Feminist Genre Film: Relational Epistemology, Catharsis, and Erotic Intersubjects.” She regularly presents on the construction and portrayal of gender, sexuality, and race within contemporary popular culture and art, such as Sex Magic: Witchcraft, Gender, and Sexuality in Paranormal Fiction and Gender Blending and Genre Bending in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series. Additionally, their work on the vampire narrative covers topics including Apocalyptic Vampires and Vampiric Icons: Visions of Vampires from Dirty to Debonair in Less than 200 Years. They have been invited to deliver lectures on the topic of vampires in popular culture, including one for the BalletMet of Columbus, Ohio, for their production of Dracula.

She is the co-editor with U. Melissa Anyiwo of Gender in the Vampire Narrative (Sense Publisher, 2016), Gender Warriors: Reading Contemporary Urban Fantasy (Brill | Sense Publisher, 2018), and Queering the Vampire Narrative (Brill Publisher, 2023). Her published work includes “‘We Don’t Do History’: Constructing Masculinity in a World of Blood” in Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Post-Apocalyptic TV and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and “Brothers Under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel” in Race in the Vampire Narrative (Sense Publisher, 2015).

Amanda is an eclectic artist, who creates visual art using watercolor, mixed media, papercratfing techniques, and collage. Additionally, they experiment with printmaking, including creating unique, handcrafted stamps for papercrafters. She also loves to create books and explore various bookbinding techniques, which she began as a teenager.

Most days, she can be found reading, watching movies, or taking hikes with her dachshund, Silas.

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