Greg Youmans

Greg Youmans is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Western Washington University. He specializes in film and media studies, with a focus on American, queer, experimental, and documentary cinemas. His research has been published in journals like Camera Obscura, Found Footage, Jump Cut, and Millennium Film Journal, as well as anthologies such as the Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema.

His first book examines the groundbreaking gay and lesbian documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977), and his second book project, Something New Under the Sun: Bay Area Queer Filmmaking Across the 1970s, is supported by a grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. He is also a writer, critic, and videomaker, with criticism appearing in Dirty Looks, e-flux, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

His video work has been showcased at venues like the Tate Modern, Anthology Film Archives, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Awards include a 2016 residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts and funding through the Arts Writers Grant.