Andrew Howe

Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Director of the Honors Program

Education: 

  • PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2005
  • MA, La Sierra University, Riverside, 1998
  • BA, La Sierra University, Riverside, 1996

Principal Research Interests

Andrew Howe is Professor of History at La Sierra University, where he teaches courses in film history and theory, popular culture, and American history. Recent scholarship includes book chapters on post-Vietnam pessemism in Jaws, villainy in Star Trek: Voyager, and masculinity in Game of Thrones. Current research projects involve the rhetoric of fear employed during the 1980s killer bee invasions of the American Southwest, as well as the debate over the rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas. These two works are conceived of as chapters in a book-length project exploring the manner in which societies translate environmental events by employing the familiar rhetorical strategies and vocabularies of existing, sociological problems.

Research Areas: 

  • American History
  • Film Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Environmental History

Email: ahowe@lasierra.edu
Phone: 951-785-2341

AWARDS

  • 2016 - University Distinguished Research Award
  • 2014 - Service Learning Teacher of the Year
  • 2011 - G. T. Anderson Teacher of the Year

Representative Publications

“‘From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee’: Villain Typologies of the Delta Quadrant.” Exploring Star Trek: Voyager.  Ed. Robert L. Lively. McFarland Press, 2020. 32-48.

“A Postmodern Take on the Classical Journey: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.” The Twenty-First Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage. Ed. Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. 205-215.

“The Realm is Dark and Full of Deities: Religion, Class, and Power.” Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death and Performance in HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones. Ed. Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady. Jefferson: McFarland Press, 2019. 5-15.

“Survival of the Fittest: Gendertopia and the Women of The 100.” Handmaids, Tributes, and Carers: Dystopian Females’ Roles and Goals. Ed. Myrna Santos. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018. 166-182.

“Cold Springs: Cinematic Portraits of Sara Roosevelt.” Representations of the Mother-in-Law in Literature, Film, Drama, and Television. Ed. Jo Parnell. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018.  121-135.

“Failed Experiment: Miranda and the Critique of Social Engineering.” Joss Whedon’s Big Damn Movie: Essays on ‘Serenity’. Ed. Frederick Blichert.  Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2018. 117-131.

“The Road to Negan: Governance and Power in The Walking Dead” (with Sean Evans). Journal of Popular Television. Ed. James Leggott.  6.3 (2018):  323-337.

“Partial Eclipse:  Harry Potter and the Popular Culture of Tomorrow.”  Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age.  Ed. John Alberti and P. Andrew Miller. Detroit:  Wayne State University Press, 2018. 19-37.

“Lover, Killer, Father, Friend: The Complex Case of Nero Padilla.” Bonds of Brotherhood in ‘Sons of Anarchy’: Essays on Masculinity in the FX Series. Ed. Susan Fanetti.  Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2018: 107-118.

“The Latest Battle: Depictions of the Calormen in The Chronicles of Narnia.”  American, British, and Canadian Studies. Ed. Ana-Karina Schneider.  29 (December 2017):  84-102

“Victims & Warriors: Domestic Violence in Films in Two Cultures.” Women, Violence, and Resistance. Ed. Hager Den Driss and Meryem Sellami. University of Tunis Press, 2017: 265-278.

“Deep Space Gender: Miles O’Brien, Julian Bashir, and Masculinity.” To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the ‘Star Trek’ Universe. Ed. Nadine Farghaly and Simon Bacon. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2017: 90-105.

“In the Line of Fire and the Gun as a Symbol of Change.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture. Ed. Leslie Kreiner Wilson. 16.1 (Spring 2017).

“Burying the Past:  Cemeteries and Remembrance in the Western.”  A Fistful of Icons: Essays on Frontier Fixtures of the American Western.  Ed. Sue Matheson and Andrew Patrick Nelson. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2017: 257-270.

“River of Blood: George Martin’s Fevre Dream and the Road to Dark Design.” Ilha do Desterro–A Journal of English Language. Ed. Olegario da Costa.  70.1 (2017):  81-89.

“A Song of Toys and T-Shirts:  Game of Thrones and Its Cultural Artifacts.” Game of Thrones: Fan Phenomena. Ed. Kavita Mudan Finn. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2017: 30-39.

“The Passenger Pigeon and its Role in Changing Perceptions of Manifest Destiny.” American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture.  Ed. Dominik Ohrem.  Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2017.  279-299.