Terri Francis is associate professor in the School of Communication at the University of Miami and the author of Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism (Indiana University Press, 2021). For the last two years she has curated the African American Film Festival at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. Dr. Francis is an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grantee and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications including Another Gaze, Seen, and Lithub, as well as the academic journals Film History, Black Camera, and Film Quarterly. She recently co-edited a collection of essays for Feminist Media Histories called “Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance.”