Histories and Futures of Black Feminist Film Curation: A Conversation with Ina Archer, Cheryl Chisholm, Monica Freeman, Jennifer Lawson, O.Funmilayo Makarah, and Yvonne Welbon

With Monica Freeman, Michael W. Phillips Jr., and Yvonne Welbon, Allyson Nadia Field and Hayley O’Malley co-organized the 2023 Sojourner Truth Festival of the Arts. https://voices.uchicago.edu/sojourner/

Allyson Nadia Field is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and The Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015). She is also coeditor with Marsha Gordon of Screening Race in American Nontheatrical Film (Duke University Press, 2019) and coeditor with Jan-Christopher Horak and Jacqueline Stewart of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015). In 2022, she guest edited two special issues of Feminist Media Histories on Speculative Approaches to Film Histories (FMH 8.2 and 8.3).

Hayley O’Malley is an assistant professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focus broadly on African American film, literature, and visual culture, and her writing has been published in ASAP/J, Black Camera, Feminist Media Histories, James Baldwin Review, and The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature, among other venues.