Course Designer: Dr. Emily D. Edwards

Emily D. Edwards is a professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro (UNCG). She received her Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1984. She has been a television news reporter, producer, copywriter and television creative services director for NBC and ABC affiliates in Alabama and Tennessee. She was the Director of the Broadcast Sequence at the University of Alabama in Birmingham until she joined the faculty at UNCG in 1987. The producer or director of more than sixteen films, Edwards has also published articles on documentary and narrative filmmaking, popular music, the occult and popular culture in journals such as The Journal of Film and Video , TDR , Sex Roles , National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Journal , Popular   Music and Society,  and The International Documentary Association Magazine , among others. Edwards’ book, Metaphysical Media: Occult Experience in Popular Culture (Southern Illinois University Press, November 2005) is an in-depth discussion of media presentation of a wide spectrum of the occult in popular culture. She may be best known for the documentaries, Deadheads: An American Subculture  (Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1990); Wondrous Events  (Penn State Media, 1995), and Wondrous Healing  (Penn State Media and Stanley Stern Parallel Lines, 2005) and the recent narrative feature film, Bone Creek  (2009).