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Haseenah Ebrahim
Haseenah Ebrahim (Ph.D., Northwestern University, Illinois) teaches in the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research and teaching interests include the fields of film, media and cultural studies, and storytelling across media and cultural contexts. She has published on the cinematic productions of Afro-Caribbean women filmmakers, including race and gender in the films of Euzhan Palcy (Martinque), Afrocuban religions and Santería aesthetics in the work of Sara Gomez and Gloria Rolando (Cuba) and the biographical documentaries of the Sistren Theatre Collective (Jamaica). Other publications include gender representations in Pixar animation films, African spirituality in independent African American cinema of the 1990s, South African women screenwriters and Bollywood in South Africa. Her current research focuses on the political economy of microentrepreneurial filmmaking in South Africa.
Contact: Dept of Interdisciplinary Arts and Culture Studies, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Johannesburg, 2001, South Africa.