Keith Harris
Keith M. Harris is a graduate in Cinema Studies at New York University. He is an assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Film and Department of African American Studies at Ohio University. His
areas of specialization include film, African-American and Africana Cinema, gender studies and queer theory.
However, his recent research and writing interests primarily concern masculinity, performance and gender(s) as
ethical constructs within performance and cultural production. He is currently completing the manuscript Boys,
Boyz, Boies: An Ethics of Masculinity in Popular Film, Television and Video and editing the
proceedings from The Commemorative Symposium: Black Cinema Aesthetics:
Issues in Black Film for a special edition of Black Praxis.