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Garritano, Carmela
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Assistant Professor of English
cjgarritano@stthomas.edu
Office Location:
JRC 357
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Academic History
M.A., Ph.D., Michigan State University Expertise/Specialties
African Literatures and Cinema Awards & Honors
2007 Maxi Grant, University of St. Thomas 2004 Sudden Opportunity Grant, University of St. Thomas Fulbright Research Award 1999 College of Arts and Letters Merit Fellowship, MSU 1997-1999 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship 1998 Global Young Scholar Award, MSU Selected Publications
“Contesting Authenticities: African Film Critics and the History of Early Video Production in Ghana.” Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies. 20.1(2008): 21-48. "Amma Darko's The Housemaid and the Gendering of Novel and Nation." Critical Perspectives on Amma Darko. Ed. Vincent O. Odamtten. Cape Town: Adelphi, 2007. "Troubled Men and the Women who Create Havoc: Four Recent Films by West African Filmmakers." Research in African Literatures 34.3 (2003): 159-66. "A Feminist Reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman." The Postcolonial Condition of African Literature. The Annual Selected Papers of the African Literature Association. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2000. "Women, Melodrama, and Political Critique: A Feminist Reading of Hostages, Dust to Dust, and True Confessions." Nigerian Video Films. Ed. Jonathon Haynes. U of Ohio Press, 1999. "At an Intersection of Humanism and Postmodernism: A Feminist Reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman." Research in African Literatures 28.2 (1997): 57-65. Selected Presentations
"Cosmopolitan Spectacle and Narratives of National Belonging in Three Transnational West African Videos." Paper presented at the African Literature Association Annual Conference, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, April 22-27, 2008. "A New Critical Architecture for African Grassroots Cinemas: Nigerian Video in Ghana, Pirate Economies and Transnational Media Flows." Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA March 6-9, 2007 "Ghanaian Video Goes Global: An Itinerant Cinema of Travel." Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, 2007. Invited Talk, "African Cinema and Its Criticism," African Studies Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 26, 2005. "Politics and Video Production." African Literature Association's Annual Conference. Madison, Wisconsin. April 14-18, 2004. "Arab Feminists and African Difference in Fatema Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass." Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association. New York. December 2002. "Between Art and Ethnography: Looking for New Ways of Reading Popular Video." Annual Conference of the African Studies Association. Washington, DC 2002. Video ProductionThe Video Revolution in Ghana (2000) |
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