Yasmine Espert

Editor and Assistant Professor, York University

Yasmine Espert loves learning alongside creatives. They’re an assistant professor of art history at York University, and Editor of Interviews and Profiles at Seen — a journal for Black, Brown and Indigenous voices in film, art and visual culture. Yasmine is working on their first book with Duke University Press, exploring contemporary films by women and queer artists of African and Asian descent within the broader history of Caribbean filmmaking and activism. They earned their doctorate from Columbia University. Examples of their creative and scholarly work about film, performance and abolition in the Black diaspora can be found at yasmineespert.com.