Terri Francis

Associate Professor

University of Miami

Terri Francis is associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Miami and the author of Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism (Indiana University Press, 2021). Francis is a 2022 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grantee and has a forthcoming book on Afrosurrealism(s) in Film and Video. Dr. Francis’s academic writing about black performance, film, and the conundrums of black representation has been featured in the academic journals Film History, Black Camera, Transition, Feminist Media Histories, ASAP, and Film Quarterly. Her essays and interviews have appeared in exhibition catalogs as well as the publications Mubi Notebook, Another Gaze, Bitch, Seen, Directed by Women, Lithub, Salon, and Shadow and Act. From 2017–21 Francis directed the Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University and she delivered the 2021 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture for the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.