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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The forth of five finalists for a position in African-American
Media/Visual Culture will be on campus on Friday. Keith Harris works
across African-American studies, gender studies, and visual culture.
Please come to his talk - we welcome feedback from all! (I will forward
any feedback to the committee.)</span></font></p>
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>Keith Harris</span></font></b></p>
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color=black face=Times><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Times;
color:black'>Ph.D. Cinema Studies/N.Y.U</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=4
color=black face=Times><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Times;
color:black'>Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, </span></font><font
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color:black'>Ohio</span></font><font size=4 color=black face=Times><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Times;color:black'> </span></font><font
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color:black'>University</span></font></p>
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>"This Nigga's Crazy: </span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=5
color=black face=Times><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Times;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Richard Pryor, Racial Performativity and Cultural
Critique"</span></font></b></p>
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>Friday </span></font></b><b><font
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>3:30pm - 5pm</span><X-TAB></font></b><font
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color:black;font-weight:bold'>HMNSS 2212</span></font></b><b><font size=4
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color:black;font-weight:bold'> (English Dept. Conference Room)</span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Professor Harris teaches courses in film
studies, film theory, film history, contemporary American film, and
African-American and African Diaspora film and literature. Professor Harris'
primary research interests are in visual culture (media, film, television and
video, especially) and gender and race and ethical constructs of gender and
race found in visual cultural production. Other secondary interests are Kantian
ethics and aesthetics. Scheduled publications (2004-2006) are "That's my
sister, baby,. . `: Pam Grier and Black Star Intertextuality" (forthcoming
in The Blaxploitation Reader); "'Stand up, boy!': Sidney Poitier, 'boy'
and Filmic Black Masculinity," in Gender and Sexuality in African
Literatures and Film; "The Burden of the Beautiful Beast: Visualizations
of the Black Male Body," in Black American Cinema Re-Visited and the
manuscript, Boys, Boyz, Boies: An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and
Popular Media. Recent Publications include, "Untitled': D'Angelo and the
visualization of the black male body" in Wide Angle.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Susan Brown</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Department of English</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Management Services Officer</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ph:(951)827-1456</span></font></p>
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