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Manthia Diawara
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Professor of Comparative Literature, Africana Studies
B.A. 1976, M.A. 1978, American; Ph.D. 1985, Indiana

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Research Interests:

Black American film, literary and cultural studies, black film in Africa and Europe.

Affiliations:

African American Review, Modern Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors:

Jury Member, The National Black Programming Consortium, Inc., Columbus, OH, 1992, 1989; Jury Member, The Paul Robeson Award, The Pan-African Film Festival of Ouagadougou, 1987; NAACP Top of the Mountain Award, 1998.

Selected Works:

In Search of Africa. Harvard University Press. 1998.
Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship, ed. Routledge. 1993.
African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Indiana University Press. 1992.

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