Dr. Jennifer Blaylock is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio, Television & Film at Rowan University. Her book project, The Promise of New Media: Racial Contours of Medium Specificity in Africa, is a postcolonial media archaeology that analyzes the history of discourse about new media technologies in Africa from the early twentieth century to the present. Her research can be found in Screen, Feminist Media Histories, boundary 2, Social Dynamics, and the Journal of African Cinemas. Please contact Dr. Blaylock if you do not have institutional access and would like to read any of her articles. She will happily send you copies promptly.
Dr. Blaylock holds a PhD in Film & Media Studies from University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and a BA in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley.
As a 2010–11 Fulbright Research Fellowship recipient, Jennifer Blaylock studied the history of early colonial film production in Ghana and conducted ethnographic research on government sponsored cinema distribution via mobile cinema vans. She also participated in audiovisual preservation advocacy in Ghana (May–August 2009 and May 2010) with New York University’s Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) program and spent five months in 2004 at the University of Ghana, Legon as an undergraduate foreign exchange student.
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