Andrew Young

Andrew Young is a scholar and media practitioner whose research and creative practice explore the intersections of film, television, digital media, memory, and political culture. His teaching includes film history and theory, Latin American cinema, television studies, documentary production, media ethics, and emerging media technologies.

His scholarship examines how media shape historical memory, national identity, and cultural discourse across film, television, games, and immersive media and has appeared in journals including Games and Culture, Tourist Studies, Critical Studies and Television, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Journal of War and Culture Studies. Recent research has explored representations of war and trauma, political memory, digital heritage, virtual reality, and the relationship between early cinema and contemporary immersive technologies.

Young is the author of Identity and Discourse in Contemporary Rwandan Media (Routledge, 2026), which examines how post-genocide Rwandan media employs narratives of reconciliation to reinforce political stability while constraining dissent. Complementing his scholarly research, he creates interactive digital works, virtual reality experiences, experimental films, and original music, including Always (2021), Disavowed (2021), Lumen (2022), Hale's Menagerie (2023), and Eidólons (2024).