Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Jennifer Bajorek

Jennifer Bajorek’s cv , including list of publications [PDF]

Contemporary Africa on Screen - www.gold.ac.uk/contemporary-africa-on-screen

Academic qualifications

PhD, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine; MA, Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine; BA, English Literature, Princeton University. Before coming to Goldsmiths, Dr Bajorek taught in the Rhetoric Department of the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar.

Teaching

Convenor, MA programme in Cultural Studies; teaches the module on “Text and Image” and lectures in the module on “Methods of Cultural Analysis” (both compulsory for students doing the MA in Cultural Studies).

Dr Bajorek welcomes applications from research students working on topics in comparative literature, French and Francophone literature, poetry, philosophy, photography and photography theory, critical and social theory (particularly Marxism or post-Marxism), and on projects taking a philosophical approach to any area of visual culture.

Recorded works

Digital image archives and photography-related resources in Africa

http://album.aufeminin.com/album/see_170102_20/SAINT-LOUIS.html#p14 http://angelo-micheli.blogspot.com/

http://www.archivesdusenegal.gouv.sn/biblio.html

http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/photographs.html

Other resources related to art, culture, criticism, and theory in Africa

http://www.aachron.com/

http://www.aachron.com/editions/critical_interventions/index.php

http://www.codesria.org/?lang=fr

http://epa-prema.net/

http://www.fondationzinsounews.org/Site/Accueil.html

http://www.sephis.org/

Other art or exhibition-related resources

http://www.biennialfoundation.org/

http://www.skor.nl/set-635-en.html

http://www.sudplanete.net/index.php?lg=

Research interests

Dr Bajorek has written and published on a broad range of topics in the areas of literature and philosophy, text and image, and critical and social theory, emphasizing questions at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. She has also translated several works of contemporary French philosophy, including those by Sarah Kofman, Bernard Stiegler, and Jacques Derrida, and she has co-edited and co-translated (with Eric Trudel and Charlotte Mandell) a volume of the ethnographic, literary theoretical, and political writings of Jean Paulhan.

Her current research is on photography and photography theory, with a geographic focus on West Africa. She is particularly interested in practices and conceptions of photography that go beyond the image or the field of the visual, and in the different modes and qualities of collective memory connected with different technologies and material supports. In a series of linked writing and teaching projects, she is exploring the significance of non-European photographic traditions for our understanding of the aesthetic and technical dimensions of political phenomena such as nationalism and democracy. Other projects in this domain include collaborative research on archives and visual publics with scholars, photographers, and institutions in the US, the UK, and Senegal.