Speakers
- Charlene Regester
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Associate Professor
Charlene Regester is an Associate Professor in the Department of African, African American, & Diaspora Studies and Faculty Affiliate with the Global Cinema Studies Minor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is author of African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010 nominated for an NAACP Image Award). Regester serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Film and Video and Choice Reviews for Academic Libraries. Her articles have appeared in Film History, Film Literature Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Popular Culture Review, Popular Music and Society, Screening Noir, Studies in American Culture, and Western Journal of Black Studies. She has been featured in the recent documentary Birth of a Movement (2017).