PEOPLE

GABEBA BADEROON

Gabeba Baderoon received a PhD in English from the University of Cape Town, and has published widely on representations of Islam, slavery and the construction of 'race' and sex in South Africa. She has held fellowships at the African Gender Institute, the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and the Nordic Africa Institute, and was the inaugural Humanities Writer in Residence at the University of Witwatersrand in 2008. Baderoon is also an award-winning poet (see Gabeba for further details about her poetry). She is an Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State.

JONATHAN EBURNE

Jonathan P. Eburne is the Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities and an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English in the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State. Jonathan Eburne’s fields of specialization include the study of international modernism; surrealism, the avant-garde, and other intellectual movements and groups; literary and cultural theory; and U.S. literature since 1865. He is author of Surrealism and the Art of Crime (Cornell University Press, 2008).

DORN HETZEL

Dorn Hetzel’s films have been screened at the Cinematheque Francaise, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Mill Valley Film Festival, among other venues. His work has also been broadcast on network and cable television. Hetzel studied film at New York University and the California Institute of the Arts and was a Fellow of the American Film Institute, working with filmmakers such as Arthur Penn, David Lean, Martin Scorcese, Alexander McHendrick, Don Levy and Terry Sanders. Professor Hetzel is the head of film at Pennsylvania State University, and is Associate Head of the Department of Film/Video and Media Studies in the College of Communications.