William D. Romanowski
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William D. Romanowski

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William D. Romanowski is a nationally recognized scholar and award-winning commentator on the intersection of religion and popular culture. He earned a PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and is currently Professor, Emeritus, Communication at Calvin University, where for many years he taught courses in film and media studies and authored various publications investigating the relation of American Christianity, popular art and culture. Romanowski was a recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and Faculty Research Award to support writing Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies (Oxford University Press, 2012), which won the Religious Communication Book of the Year Award and the President’s Author Series Award at Indiana Wesleyan University. And his general audience book, Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture (Brazos, 2001, 2007) received an EPCA (Evangelical Christian Publishers Association) Gold Medallion Award. His books, journal essays, and popular articles have been read by generally educated readers, cited, and reviewed by scholars and critics. His commentary has appeared in national news outlets and major metropolitan newspapers. He likes to say that he grew up playing football and rock’n’roll in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley and still thinks of himself as a working-poor kid who got a PhD. Over the years, he discovered that he writes to learn, and learns enough to write – and then some.
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