POST-VIEWING DISCUSSANTS
Marc Bernstein is a scholar of Judaic and Islamic civilizations, and teaches courses on Hebrew and Israeli cultural studies, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the “Abrahamic” traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. His book, Stories of Joseph: Narrative Migrations between Judaism and Islam, examined the interdependence of the Muslim and Jewish traditions about the biblical and quranic figure of Joseph, focusing on a nineteenth-century, Judeo-Arabic manuscript from Cairo.
Mihaela Mihailova is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Film Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Mihaela's research interests include animation, film and media theory, Eastern European cinema, video games, and comics. She has published articles in animation: an interdisciplinary journal, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities, and Kino Kultura. She has also contributed chapters to Animating Film Theory (with John MacKay), Animated Landscapes: History, Form, and Function, and the forthcoming Animation Studies Handbook.
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Mina Shin is an Assistant Director of the Visiting International Professional Program at Michigan State University. In that capacity, she develops and oversees professional development programs for international visitors. She holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Southern California. A former faculty member at MSU in the Department of Linguistics and Languages where she taught Asian film courses, she is currently an affiliated member of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and the Asian Studies Center at MSU.
Jyotsna G. Singh teaches and researches early modern literature and, especially, Shakespeare, colonial history, travel writing, postcolonial theory, early modern histories of Islam, and gender and race studies, often exploring the intersections of these fields.
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Organized by Catherine Ryu & Kirsten Fermaglich
