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  • Notes on Contributors

Kass Banning

Kass Banning teaches in the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on various forms of screen alterity, to include minor cinemas and new media, ranging from diasporic, to indigenous, to queer. She has a long-standing interest in cross-cultural aesthetics, transnationalism, and theories of mobility and affect. She has published mostly in the areas of Black British and Canadian cinemas, and documentary media; she is a coeditor of the anthology on Canadian women’s cinema Gendering the Nation (University of Toronto Press, 1999) and a cofounder of the journals Cine-Action and Borderlines. Special issues she has edited include, among others, “Canadas: Cinema and Criticism” for CineAction and Documentary, Race to Representation and “Mau-Mauing Multiculturalism” for Border/Lines. Banning also organized Cinematic Translations: The Work of John Akomfrah, a 2013 symposium sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Program for the Arts and the Cinema Studies Institute.

Olivier Barlet

Olivier Barlet is a member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinema, a delegate for Africa at the Cannes Festival Critics’ Week, and a film correspondent for Africultures, Continental, and Afriscope. He runs the Images plurielles collection on cinema for L’Harmattan Publishing House. His book Les Cinémas d’Afrique noire: le regard en question has been translated into English as African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze (Zed Books, 2001), as well as into German and Italian. From 1997 to 2004, Barlet was chief editor of Afri-cultures, an African cultural journal that features a paper edition and a website. He has also published articles in numerous journals and is a member of the African Federation of Film Critics.

Derrais Carter

Derrais (D. A.) Carter is an assistant professor of Black studies at Portland State University. His research interests include theories of representation, black popular culture, masculinity studies, and sexuality studies. He is coeditor of The Iconic Obama, 2007-2009: Essays on Media Representations of the Candidate and New President (McFarland, 2012). He is currently writing a monograph that examines racial science, photography, and the sexual politics [End Page 269] of racial uplift during a 1919 obscenity trial in Washington, DC. He is also a member of the Queering Slavery Working Group, an interdisciplinary scholarly collective that uses social media to explore the overlap between queer studies, queer of color studies, and the history of black enslavement.

Matthias De Groof

Matthias De Groof is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, where he studies postcolonial theory and Belgian cinema. He was a Fulbright and BAEF visiting scholar in Cinema Studies at New York University. His PhD research focused on Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo. His scholarly work has been published in Third Text and Image and Narrative, and with Columbia University Press, among others. He combines his academic research with filmmaking, and his work has been shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Media City, San Francisco Art Institute, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Stoffel Debuysere

Stoffel Debuysere has been involved in the fields of cinema and moving image arts through various initiatives, primarily as a member of the Courtisane collective. He teaches at KASK School of Arts in Ghent, where he is currently working on the research project Figures of Dissent: Cinema of Politics, Politics of Cinema, which includes online documentation of his work.

Beti Ellerson

Beti Ellerson is the founder and director of the Centre for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema and has published extensively and spoken widely on African women and the moving image. She holds a PhD in African studies from Howard University, is the author of Sisters of the Screen: Women of Africa on Film, Video and Television (Africa World Press, 2000), and creator of the documentary Sisters of the Screen: African Women in the Cinema (2002). Ellerson was the keynote speaker at the 2012 colloquy on Francophone African Women Filmmakers in Paris; is the 2011 laureate of the Distinguished Woman of African Cinema Award presented by Women Filmmakers of Zimbabwe; and has juried at film festival such as the International Images Film Festival for Women held in Harare (2011) and FESPACO (2013). She teaches courses in Africana...

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