Speakers
- Samantha Sheppard
- Cornell University, Mary Armstrong Meduski '80 Assistant Professor
Samantha N. Sheppard is the Mary Armstrong Meduski ’80 Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She writes extensively on race and gender in cinema and media studies. Coeditor of “From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry” (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), her essays appear in Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, Journal of Sport History, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015), and Black Camera: An International Journal. Her monograph “Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen” is under contract with University of California Press.