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 (Zed Books, London), 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.
Darcy L. Brandel
Darcy L. Brandel is an assistant professor of English at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan. She has published work on Gertrude Stein and experimental writing by women, and she is currently working on a manuscript that discusses feminist theorizing in predominantly black classrooms.
Sean Desilets
Sean Desilets is an assistant professor of English and Film Studies at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He holds a PhD in English literature from Tufts University. His work examines the intersection of theology and cinema. Currently, he is writing an article that compares Ovid's and Jean Cocteau's representations of Orpheus.
Phil Dickinson
Phil Dickinson is senior lecturer in the Department of English, Bowling Green State University. He teaches courses in American literature and literary and critical theory. His research interests include the intersections between postwar American avant-garde cultures and "hip" consumerism, theories of everyday life and commodification, Beat literature and culture, [End Page 181] and nineteenth-century naturalism. He also plays drums in a variety of local garage rock and noise bands.
Terri Simone Francis
Terri Simone Francis is assistant professor of Film Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Indiana University Press will publish her study of Josephine Baker as a primal site of black cinema's anxieties and pleasures. Other research projects concern home movies and Jamaica's transnational history with film.
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Matthew Pratt Guterl is associate professor of African American and African Diaspora 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.
Michael T. Martin
Michael T. Martin is director of the Black Film Center/Archive and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the editor/co-editor of Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: Slavery, Jim Crow, and their Legacies (Duke University Press); Studies of Development and Change in the Modern World (Oxford University Press); Cinemas of the Black Diaspora (Wayne State University Press); and a two-volume work, New Latin American Cinema (Wayne State University Press). His work on the Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solas appeared in Film Quarterly and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video; the Burkinabe filmmaker, Gaston Kaboré, in Research in African Literatures; and the Mexican filmmaker, Francisco Athié, in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Framework. Forthcoming are interviews with filmmakers Julie Dash in Cinema Journal, Joseph Gai Ramaka in Research in African Literatures, Yoruba Richen in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He also directed and coproduced the awardwinning feature documentary on Nicaragua, In the Absence of Peace.
Marissa J. Moorman
Marissa J. Moorman is assistant professor of African History at Indiana University. She is an historian of southern Africa whose research focuses on the intersection between politics and culture in colonial and independent Angola. Intonations (Ohio University Press, 2008) explores music as a practice in and through which Angolans living under extreme political repression [End Page 182] imagined the nation and...
