Charlene Regester is associate professor in the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies and affiliate faculty with the Global Cinema Minor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960; coeditor with Mae Henderson of The Josephine Baker Critical Reader; and editorial board member of the Journal of Film and Video and The Projector: A Journal of Film, Media, and Culture. Her publications appear in Film History, Popular Music and Society, Film Literature Quarterly, and other journals.
Cynthia Baron is professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University. She is author of Denzel Washington and Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre. She is coauthor of Reframing Screen Performance; Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance; and Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation. She is coeditor of More Than a Method: Trends and Traditions in Film Performance; editor of the Journal of Film and Video; and editor of The Projector: A Journal of Film, Media, and Culture.
Ellen C. Scott is associate professor in the School of Theater, Film, and Television and associate dean of equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2016, she was awarded the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Film Scholars Grant for her project "Cinema’s Peculiar Institution," which investigated the representation of slavery on screen. She is author of Cinema Civil Rights: Race, Repression, and Regulation in Classical Hollywood Cinema. Her publications appear in Film History, African American Review, American History, Black Camera, and other journals.
Terri Simone Francis is associate professor of cinematic arts and associate dean for inclusion and outreach at the University of Miami. She is author of Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism, which illustrates Baker’s conscious shaping of her celebrity and African Americans’ interest in cinema and efforts to gain equality. Her research appears in Feminist Media Histories, Film History, Film Quarterly, Black Camera, and other journals. In her former role as director of the Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University, she curated series on classic Black films of the 1970s, Black cinematic imaginations of outer space, and other topics.
Robin G. Vander is associate professor in the Department of English at Xavier University. She is coeditor of Percival Everett: Writing Other/Wise and Perspectives on Percival Everett (the latter published by University Press of Mississippi). She is coeditor of two issues of the Xavier Review: "Celebrating Jesmyn Ward: Critical Readings and Scholarly Responses" and "Reading the Intersections of Sex and Spirit in the Creative Arts." Her article "The African American Population in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina" appears in The Review of Black Political Economy.
