Jennifer Bajorek | April - May 2023
After completing her MA and PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, Jennifer Bajorek began her career as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and as a research assistant at Goldsmiths' College, University of London (Centre for Cultural Studies). She subsequently embarked on research projects and cultural activism in West Africa, including the 3PA (Preservation of African Photographic Heritage) workshop in Porto-Novo, Benin. She is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies at Hampshire College, USA, and Research Fellow at the VIAD Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The project
Title: L’image de l’immigration en France contemporaine
Keywords : Littérature, l’histoire de la photographie (surtout hors de l’Europe et de l’Amérique du Nord), les Afriques multiples
Selection of publications
Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa (2020) (Livre)
« Decolonization and Nonalignment: African Futures, Lost and Found ». Cold War Camera. Ed. Erina Duganne et Thy Phu (2022) (Chapitre dans une collection)
« Appareils défectueux et images floues. Kodak, l’autre nom de la décolonisation en Afrique de l’Ouest? » Trans. Jean-François Caro. Transbordeur 4 (2020) : 144-155. (Article)
Counterfeit Capital : Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony (2009) (Livre)
Jean Paulhan. On Poetry and Politics. (Avec Éric Trudel et Charlotte Mandell) (2008) (Édition et traduction)
Sarah Kofman. « The Melancholy of Art » and « The Resemblance of Portraits: Imitation According to Diderot ». Selected Writings. Ed. Thomas Albrecht, Georgia Albert et Elizabeth Rottenberg. (2007) (Traduction)
Jacques Derrida et Bernard Stiegler. Echographies of Television (2002) (Traduction)
