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MaryEllen Higgins
MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins teaches comparative literature, cinema studies and writing at the Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny. Her books include The Western in the Global South (co-edited with Rita Kerestezi and Dayna Oscherwitz, Routledge, 2015) and Hollywood’s Africa after 1994 (Ohio University Press, 2012). She has published articles in Research in African Literatures, African Literature Today, African Studies Review, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and in several edited volumes. She has produced four films: Kivu Ruhorahoza’s Father’s Day (2022), Ruhorahoza’s Europa: ‘Based on a True Story’ (2019), Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Mudimbe’s Order of Things (2013) and Bekolo’s Naked Reality (2016).
Contact: Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny, Department of English, 4000 University Drive, McKeesport, PA 15132, USA.