Terri Francis

Assistant Professor
Film Studies and African American Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the film Studies Program
terri.francis@yale.edu

Terri Francis earned her Ph.D. in English at the University of Chicago, where she specialized in the history and aesthetics of African Diaspora cinema, literature and culture. Her current project is The Josephine Baker Body-Museum: Blackness, Power and Visual Pleasure, which foregrounds her concern with race, gender and cinema. Further research includes studies of Jamaican film culture and African American home movies. Professor Francis' courses include American Experimental Cinema, Blaxploitation Re-examined, Close Analysis of Film and Spike Lee.