Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Moradewun Adejunmobi is a professor in the African American and African Studies Program at the University of California, Davis. She has published widely on the Nigerian film industry and currently works on new media, performance, and popular film in West Africa.
Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His books include Roots in the Sky (Festac Books, 2004), a novel, and Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics (Indiana University Press, 2011). His recent writings have appeared in AGNI, Screen, Textual Practice, Social Dynamics, Research in African Literatures, CityScapes, World Literature Today, and African Affairs. He is a contributing editor of Chimurenga.
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 (London: Zed Books), as well as into German and Italian. From 1997 to 2004, Barlet was chief editor of Africultures, an African cultural journal that features a paper edition and a website (www.africultures.com). He has also published articles in numerous journals and is a member of the African Federation of film critics (www.africine.org).
Karen Bowdre received her doctorate in film and television studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. She is currently an adjunct professor at Arcadia University. Her research interests include race and representation, gender, early African American theater history, adaptation, romantic comedies, telefantasy, and telenovelas. She has published on romantic comedies in the anthology Falling in Love Again: The Contemporary Romantic Comedy, and her book Shades of Love: African [End Page 219] Americans and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.
Jane Bryce is a professor of African literature and cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Born in Tanzania, she was educated there and in the UK and Nigeria. She has been a freelance journalist and fiction editor and has published in a range of academic journals and essay collections, specializing in popular fiction, contemporary African fiction, representations of gender, cinema (with a special interest in Nollywood), and visual culture. She was director of the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film (2002–5) and is now Barbados curator of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival.
Carmela Garritano is an associate professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and her work has been supported by grants from Fulbright and the West African Research Association. She is author of African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History (Ohio University Press, 2013). Her research interests include African cultural and literary production, with a focus on Ghana, new media, and affect theory. Currently she is investigating changing representations of the telephone in African literature and film.
Nadia Ghasedi is head of the Visual Media Research Lab that comprises the Washington University Libraries Film & Media Archive and Modern Graphic History Library. She is currently the principal investigator for the Eyes on the Prize Preservation Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to complete the film preservation of part 1 of the award-winning documentary series and all associated interview outtakes. Ms. Ghasedi holds an MA in Information Science & Learning Technologies with an Emphasis in Library Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia; a Certificate in Film Preservation from the L. Jeffrey School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York; and a BA in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kenneth Harrow is Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature, diaspora, and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature (Heinemann, 1994), Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading [End Page 220] of African Women’s Writing (Heinemann, 2002), and Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (Indiana University Press, 2007). His latest work, Trash...
