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3126 CHASS INT SOUTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Harris, Keith M

Assoc. Professor

Biography

Keith M. Harris is a graduate in Cinema Studies at New York University. He has taught at Ohio University in the Schools of Film and Interdisciplinary Arts and the Department of African American Studies, New York University, Long Island University, Brooklyn College, Queens College and the College of Staten Island. Keith Harris joins the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of English and the Program in Film and Visual Culture at the University of California at Riverside. 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. His recent publications include the manuscript, Boys, Boyz, Boies: An Ethics of Masculinity in Popular Film, Television and Video (Routledge 2006) and "‘Untitled’: D'Angelo and the visualization of the black male body" in Wide Angle (2004). Scheduled publications (2006-2007) include “‘Stand up, boy!’: Sidney Poitier, ‘boy’ and Filmic Black Masculinity,” in Gender and Sexuality in African Literatures and Film; “The Burden of the Beautiful Beast: Visualizations of the Black Male Body,” in Black American Cinema Re-Visited; and “Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black,” in The Spike Lee Reader.

Degrees

Ph.D. Cinema Studies 2002

New York University

M.A. English 1992

University of California, Berkeley

M.S. Botany 1988

University of California, Berkeley

B.A. Biology 1986

Hampton University

Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities, African Cinema Institute, Dakar, Senegal, Summer 2005.


Research Area

African-American Film, Queer Cinema, Contemporary Documentary, Performance Theory and Race Theory

Publications

“That Nigga’s Crazy: Richard Pryor, Racial Performativity, and Cultural Critique,” The Richard Pryor Reader (Indiana University Press), forthcoming 2006.
“Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black,” in The Spike Lee Reader, edited by Paula Masood (Temple University Press), forthcoming in 2006.

Boys, Boyz, Boies: An Ethics of Black Masculinity in Film and Popular Media (Routledge), 2006.

Guest Editor, The Proceeding from Commemorative Symposium: Black Cinema Aesthetics: Issues in Contemporary Black Film, forthcoming 2006.

“‘Stand up, boy!’: Sidney Poitier, ‘boy’ and Filmic Black Masculinity,” in Gender and Sexuality in African Literatures and Film (Africa World Press), forthcoming 2006.

“‘How does it feel?’: D’Angelo and the Visualization of the Black Male Body,” in Wide Angle, Special Issue on Black Masculinity in Film, Summer 2004.

Guest Editor, Wide Angle, Special Issue on Black Masculinity in Film, Summer 2004.