Film and Genocide

Contributors

255 Contributors   is an assistant professor of literature and media studies at the University of Bamberg, Germany (currently on leave as postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Center, University of Sydney, Australia). She was a doctoral fellow at Yale University, and she is the recipient of several academic prizes and research grants, including a visiting fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2011). Banita’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, Parallax, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Textual Practice, in addition to chapters for several edited volumes, including John Huston: Essays on a Restless Director (2010) and Eco-Trauma Cinema: Technology, Nature, and the End of the World (forthcoming).  .  is an assistant professor of English and film at East Tennessee State University, and she is director of the film studies program. She has published articles on film and antifascism in Literature/Film Quarterly and Women in German Yearbook, and on African American film in Journal of African American Studies and African Americans in Cinema: The First Half Century. She is coediting a special issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal and revising a book manuscript about the legacies of antifascist filmmaking.  .  is head of the Department of History at Bialik College, Melbourne, Australia. He was an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne, between 2003 and 2010. He has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Martin-Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust, Tolerance, and Humanitarian Values at Northern Arizona University and a visiting professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Bartrop’s many published works include Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (2010); The Genocide Studies Reader (2009); A Dictionary of Genocide (2 vols.) (2008); Teaching about the Holocaust: Essays by University and College Educators (2004); Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis (2002); Surviving the Camps: Unity in Adversity during the Holocaust (2000); False Havens: The British Empire and the Holocaust (1995); Australia and the Holocaust, 1933–1945 (1994); and The Dunera Affair: A Documentary Resource Book (1990). His current projects include A Biographical Encyclopedia of Modern Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good and Genocide Goes to the Movies: An Annotated Filmography of the Holocaust and Genocide. He is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; the Australian representative on the International Committee of the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust; a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the international journal Genocide Studies and Prevention; a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies; and a member of the Advisory Board of the Genocide Education Project, California. Dr. Bartrop is a former president of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies.  .  is a Harper-Wood Scholar in English Poetry and Literature at St John’s College, Cambridge. Cieplak completed his doctoral research in the Department of French, University of Cambridge, where he investigated the representation of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath in photography and documentary film. He has an interest in and has written about cultural memory, commemorative practices, documentary film, photography, African film festivals, Rwandan and East African cinema, and representations of Africa, especially African conflict and its aftermath outside the continent.   is a professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches creative writing, literature, and film. Dr. Cooper is the author of Full of Life: A Biography of John Fante and the editor of The John Fante Reader and Perspectives on John Huston.  . - is a visiting professor at Soka University. Dr. Crowder-Taraborrelli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and moved to the United States in 1986. He received a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Crowder-Taraborrelli was a fellow in the humanities at Stanford University, where he cofounded the Stanford film lab and completed most of the research for this book. He has published articles in CineAction, Revista Cine Documental, and Latin American Perspectives, is a contributor to Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (2007), and is the coeditor of Bakhtin and the Nation (1999). He has taught a variety of subjects at Soka University of America since 2007: Latin American film and human rights, Latin American literature, and a course on documentation of atrocities. He is currently working on a manuscript titled “Documentary Film and the Condor Years.” His website is www.tcrowdertaraborrelli.com. -  is...