Golden M. Owens is an Assistant Professor of Cinema & Media Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on representations of race and gender, artificial intelligence, haunting, popular culture, and realized sounds and voices. Her work appears in Sounding Out!, the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, and Flow.

Owens is a 2026-2027 Society of Scholars fellow for her project Digital Maids in Domestic Spaces: Virtual Assistants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Ghosts of Black Women's Labor. Asserting that virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT are haunted by an extensive history of raced, classed, and gendered labor in the United States—specifically, by the labor of Black female domestic servants—this project interrogates Americans’ continued desires for domestic and domestic-adjacent help and what it means that current iterations of this help eerily mirror the Black women houseworkers once predominantly responsible for performing this work.