Vlad Dima
Vlad Dima
Pronouns: he/him/his
Professor
CONTACT
African American Studies
204 Sims Hall
Email: vdima@syr.edu
Degrees
- PhD, French Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2010
Vlad Dima is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University. He has published numerous articles, mainly on French and francophone cinemas, but also on Francophone literature, comics, American cinema and television. He is the author of the following books: Sonic Space in Djibril Diop Mambety's Films (Indiana University Press, 2017), The Beautiful Skin: Football, Fantasy, and Cinematic Bodies in Africa (Michigan State University Press, 2020), and Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in in Postcolonial Cinema (Michigan State University Press, 2022).
African cinema, francophone studies, French cinema, film theory, literary studies
Sound studies, African cinema, French New Wave, Postcolonial studies
Interview with MSU Press about my second book.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Award (2022).