Speakers
- Michele Prettyman (Formerly Beverly)
- Mercer University
Michele Prettyman is an Assistant Professor of Media and Africana Studies at Mercer University and a scholar of film, African American cinema and visual culture. A central theme in her work is the exploration of what lies at the intersection of race, visual culture and consciousness. Her recent work includes the co-editing of a Close Up series in Black Camera journal focusing on black independent filmmaking in New York; she contributed an essay on the spiritual lives of Aretha Franklin and Beyoncé’s in recently released anthology entitled, The Lemonade Reader and has a forthcoming essay in the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies on hip hop and music video culture. She teaches courses in digital storytelling, race, gender and media, film studies, Southern film, and screenwriting, among others. Michele is also a contributor and member of the advisory board for ‘liquid blackness’: A Research Project on Blackness and Aesthetics.