Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
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 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 website (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.
Honey Crawford
Honey Crawford is a performance studies scholar and artist. She is completing a study of the performance of blackness in comparative, diasporic frameworks.
Margo Natalie Crawford
Margo Natalie Crawford is an associate professor in the Department of English at Cornell University. She is the author of Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (2008) and with Lisa Gail Collins, New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (2006). She is completing a book connecting word and image interplays in the Black Arts movement and the twenty-first century.
Erica R. Edwards
Erica R. Edwards is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (2011). Her work on African American literature, politics, and gender critique has appeared in Callaloo, American Quarterly, American Literary History, and Women and Performance. [End Page 269]
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Matthew Guterl is professor of history and chair of American studies at Indiana University. He is the author of The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (2001) and American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation (2008). He is currently at work on a biography of Josephine Baker, tentatively titled Mother of the World: Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe.
Carol E. Henderson
Carol Henderson is chair of the Department of Black American Studies and professor of English at the University of Delaware, Newark campus. She authored Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature (2002) and edited Imagining the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture (2010) and America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture (2009) among numerous other publications. She is currently working on a book project entitled Resurrecting the Hottentot Venus: Visions, Revisions, and Literary Responses.
Paul C. Heyde
Paul Heyde, former archivist and head of Public and Technology Services at the BFC/A, is Library/Archives Collection Manager at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.
Abigail Horne
Abigail Horne is a postdoctoral fellow in the English Department at Washington University in St. Louis whose research is on American literature, African American literature, and American film.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is an assistant professor of African and African diaspora studies and romance languages and literatures at Boston College. Her work has appeared in Small Axe, Callaloo, and the Journal of Haitian Studies. Her book manuscript, Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary explores the representation of sexual violence in francophone literary and cultural studies from Africa and the Caribbean.
Mia Mask
Mia Mask is an associate professor of film at Vassar College and author of Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film (2009) and editor of Contemporary Black American Cinema (2012). Her essays appear in African [End Page 270] American National Biography, Screen Stars of the 1990s, Film and Literature, and American Cinema of the 1970s.
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of the poetry collection Little Murders Everywhere (2012), and her poems and reviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, and Ploughshares. She is assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and...
