Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
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 is in charge of the Images plurielles collection on cinema for L'Harmattan Publishing House. His book entitled Les Cinémas d'Afrique noire: le regard en question, which won the Prix Art et Essai 1997 from the Centre national de la Cinématographie, has been translated into English under the title 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 Web site (www.africultures.com). He has also written numerous articles on African film for Africultures and in various journals and is a member of the African Federation of film critics (www.africine.org) through the French Afrimages association.
Phyllis L. Burns is assistant professor of English at Otterbein College. Her areas of research and teaching include African American literature, black film, and black feminist theory.
Marlo D. David is an assistant professor in English and Women's Studies at Purdue University and does research in twentieth-century African American literature and culture, African diaspora literatures, and gender and sexuality studies. Her academic research concentrates on the rich lives and literature of contemporary black women, but she also frequently writes about intersections between popular culture and politics. Her essays have appeared in The African American Review, Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip Hop Feminist Anthology, and Black Woman & Child.
Babacar M'Baye is assistant professor of English and Pan-African studies at Kent State University. His work has appeared in Journal of African Literature and Culture, Journal of Pan-African Studies, New England Journal of History, and other publications. M'Baye is the author of The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives (2009). [End Page 171]
Marlon R. Moore is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her current research focuses on the intersection of queerness and spirituality in twentieth-century African American literature. Dr. Moore's work has appeared in African American Review, Gender Forum, and Dialogue 5: The Color Purple.
Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamian writer, cultural critic, teacher, community worker, and poet. She is an assistant professor in residence in Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her academic work has been published in the journals Studies in American Indian Literatures, Lucayos, and MaComère, as well as the collection The Caribbean Women Writer as Scholar and the magazine Black Renaissance Noire.
Samuel Park is an assistant professor of English at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches courses in American Drama, Shakespeare, and Asian American literature. His work has appeared in Theatre Journal and Shakespeare Bulletin; his novels include This Burns My Heart (Simon & Schuster) and Shakespeare's Sonnets (Alyson Books).
Matt Richardson is assistant professor in English, the Center for African and African American Studies, and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published articles in Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of the NSRC and The Journal of Women's History, as well as works of fiction in publications like Pharos and Does Your Mama Know: African American Coming Out Stories. He received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship National Fellowship for Junior Faculty and the Dean's Fellowship in 2009.
Aja Roache is an independent artist who lives in Tallahassee, Florida. She can be contacted at ajaroache@gmail.com.
Terry Rowden is an associate professor in the Department of English at The College of Staten Island/CUNY. He is the co-editor of Transnational Cinema: The Film Reader (Routledge, 2006) and the author of The Songs of Blind Folk: African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness (University of Michigan Press, 2009). His essays and reviews have appeared in the journals Southern Review, MELUS, College Literature, English Language Notes, [End Page 172] and Scope: An Online Journal of Film Criticism and in the collections The Encyclopedia of...
