For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Michael B. Gillespie Position: Associate Professor of Film at the City College of New York Campus Affiliation: City College of New York|Graduate Center Office Hours: By appointment mgillespie1@ccny.cuny.edu Degrees/Diplomas: PhD in Cinema Studies, New York University Research Interests: Film theory, black visual and expressive culture, popular music, and contemporary art. Specialization: African American Literature and Literary Theory|Cultural Studies|Film and Literature|Popular Culture|Visual Culture Book Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. Edited Collections Black One Shot. Co-editor with Lisa Uddin. An art criticism series devoted to black visual and expressive culture series on ASAP/J (the open-access platform for the Association for the Study of the Present Journal. “Dimensions in Black: Perspectives on Black Film and Media.” Co-editor with Racquel Gates of dossier for Film Quarterly 71.2 (Winter 2017): 9-60. Essays and Book Chapters “Reclaiming Black Film and Media Studies” (co-authored with Racquel Gates). A Film Manifestos dossier. Film Quarterly 72.3 (2019): 13-15. “Art and the Idea of Black Film: A Conversation.” Moderator and editor of discussion with Jon S. Goff, Alessandra Raengo, and Samantha N. Sheppard. Flash Art #324 (February – March 2019): 64-72. “Empathy Complicity” in Unwatchable, ed. Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen (Rutgers University Press, 2019). “Cinema.” Keywords in African American Studies, eds. Erica Edwards, Roderick Ferguson, Jeffrey Ogbar (NYU Press, 2018). “8.3: Mr. Nancy’s Story.” Black One Shot, eds. M. Boyce Gillespie and Lisa Uddin. ASAP/J (9.10.18) “Introduction” (co-authored with Racquel Gates) for “Dimensions in Black: Perspectives on Black Film and Media” dossier. Film Quarterly 71.2 (Winter 2017). “Death Grips.” Film Quarterly 71.2 (Winter 2017). “Cinema Notes/American Letters.” Co-authored with Elizabeth Reich and Courtney Baker. ASAP/J (June 2017). “I and I Survive: Notes on Film Blackness in the 21st Century [Anmerkungen zu Film Blackness im 21. Jahrhundert].” Kolik Film 27 (March 2017) “One Step Ahead: A Conversation with Barry Jenkins.” Film Quarterly 70.3 (2017): 52–62. “B.A.D. (Black Abstraction Dreaming): A Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson.” Black Camera 8. 1 (Fall 2016): 155-168. “The Art of Film Blackness: A Conversation with Michael Boyce Gillespie” (co-authored with Regina Longo). Film Quarterly 70.1 (Fall 2016): 112–117. “Grace and Grind: Notes on the Work of Kevin Jerome Everson.” How to Remain Human. Cleveland: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, 2015. “Do The Right Thing.” Encyclopedia of Films, ed. Sabine Haenni and John White. London: Routledge, 2014. “Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Racial Performativity, and Film Blackness.” Passing Interest: Racial Passing in U.S. Fiction, Memoirs, Television, and Film, 1990-2010, ed. Julie Cary Nerad. Albany: SUNY Press, 2014. “Dirty Pretty Things: The Racial Grotesque and Contemporary Art.” Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights, ed. Derek Maus and Jim Donahue. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. “2 Nigs United 4 West Compton: A Conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson.” liquid blackness 1.2 (2014). “Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin, Film Blackness, and the Racial Grotesque.” Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, ed. Mia Mask. London: Routledge, 2012. “‘To Do Better’: Notes on the Work of Kevin Jerome Everson.” Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson. Chicago: Video Data Bank, 2011.