Adam Ochonicky

Adam Ochonicky is Associate Professor of English in the School of Media, Arts, and Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. His research and teaching primarily focus on nostalgia and regionalism across a variety of mediums, contexts, and eras. He is the author of The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism(Indiana University Press, 2020). His work has appeared in journals and collections such as Science Fiction Film and Television, Adaptation, Horror Studies, Screening the Past, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Flyover Fictions: Polarization in U.S.-American Culture, Media, and Politics (University of Nebraska Press, 2025), The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia (Routledge, 2024), and ReFocus: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).