Michael Gillespie, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Contact Information
Phone: (740) 593-9789
Fax: (740) 593-0671
Office:342 Lindley Hall
E-mail:gillespm@ohio.edu

Education
Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, September 2007
M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, Spring 1997
B.A., English, Morehouse College, December 1991

Biography
Michael B. Gillespie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies, the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and the School of Film.

Research Interests
Film theory and aesthetics, film blackness, visual historiography, genre studies, adaptation theory, hiphop modernism, free jazz, and the Japanese New Wave.

Publications Include
“Do The Right Thing” in Fifty Key US Films, eds. Sabine Haenni and John White (Routledge).

Forthcoming, “Reckless Eyeballing: Coonskin and the Racial Grotesque,” in Black American Cinema Reconsidered, eds. Manthia Diawara and Mia Mask (Routledge).

Forthcoming, “Smiling Faces: Chameleon Street, Passing, and Blackness” in Racial Passing Since 1990, ed. Julie Cary Nerad.

Michael B. Gillespie’s work addresses film with a consideration of collateral fields of inquiry concerned with aesthetics, culture, and historiography. This focus is coupled with a necessary address of art practices other than film (e.g. television, literature, music, new media, photography, installation art, photography) with the belief that the rhetorical intonations of film are significantly mediated by the larger concerns of expressive and visual culture. His current work includes Chester Himes and the noir tradition, the art of the racial grotesque, and visual historiography.

Courses Taught: He has been teaching courses on several aspects of visual and expressive culture.