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Manthia Diawara (born December 19, 1953) is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian. He holds the title of University Professor at New York University (NYU), where he is Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs. Biography. Diawara was born in Bamako, Mali, and received his early education in France. [1]
Manthia Diawara is a Professor in the Martin Scorses Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Read more about Diawara’s career...
Manthia Diawara. Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies. Education. Ph.D. 1985, Indiana; M.A. 1978, American; B.A. 1976. Areas of Research/Interest. Black American film, literary and cultural studies, black film in Africa and Europe. External Affiliations. African American Review, Modern Language Association. Fellowships/Honors.
Manthia Diawara is a writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar and art historian. Diawara holds the title of University Professor at New York University, where he is Director of the Institute of African American Affairs.
Sep 8, 2021 · Manthia Diawara’s substantial corpus of autobiographical essays and films linking the personal and the political, the individual and the collective, francophone African, French, and African-American cultural practices, deserves a central place in studies of autoethnography; yet his work has been largely overlooked in life narrative studies.
Feb 10, 2022 · Manthia Diawara is working to preserve and rejuvenate anti- and postcolonialism. He is uniquely positioned to do so because these movements and bodies of thought have shaped his...
Manthia Diawara, a distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University, discussed author and philosopher Édouard Glissant and his ideas that influenced...
Manthia Diawara. Thinker - Treading a path between art, philosophy and journalism. 68 in 2023
He is the author of We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World (Basic Civitas Books, 2003), Black-American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (ed. Routledge, 1993), African Cinema: Politics and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1992), and In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 1998).
Manthia Diawara, An Opera of the World (2017), digital video, color, sound, 70 min., courtesy Prince Claus Fund for Culture, Amsterdam
