Precarious Labor Organization Representative, Board of Directors, 2022-2025
Biography
Jamie Ann Rogers is an assistant professor of film in the Department of English at Western Washington University where she specializes in race and representation in film and literature. She earned her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, with emphases in Visual Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American Studies, and Critical Theory. Her book project, "The L.A. Rebellion: Feminist Interventions and Institutional Claims," examines the Black feminist aesthetic and filmmaking practices of the L.A. Rebellion student film movement. The book argues that L.A. Rebellion student filmmakers' claims to the university and its resources as a space for feminist, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist liberatory work run counter to the entrenchment of university privatization and corporatization, in general, and film schools, in particular. Dr. Rogers is also completing a series of essays on affect and geography in experimental Black documentary film. Her work has appeared in Black Camera, Camera Obscura, The Projector, and various anthologies.
Degrees
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
M.A. English, Western Washington University B.A. Spanish, Western Washington University
B.A. Journalism, Cal State Long Beach
Teaching and Research Interests
Black and feminist independent film; the L.A. Rebellion; geography and documentary film; media and social justice
Selected Publications
"Whiteness and the Absent-Presence of Race and Class in Sofia Coppola's Feature Films," The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sofia Coppola . Ed. Suzanne Ferriss, Bloomsbury, expected January 2023.
"Affecting Geographies of Blackness and Non-representationality in Documentary Film (Hale County This Morning, This Evening and A Love Song for Latasha)" The Projector, vol. 21, no. 2, Winter 2021.
"'Sometimes it seems you're in another world:' Afrocentric Feminisms of the L.A. Rebellion," Camera Obscura 104, vol. 35, no. 2, September 2020.
"Diasporic Communion and Intertextual Exchange in Beyoncé's Lemonade and Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust." Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 2, Spring 2020.
"Organizing Precarious Labor in Film & Media Studies: A Manifesto," by Bruce Basell, Joseph Clark, Beth Corzo-Duchardt, Rebecca M. Gordon, Jamie Ann Rogers, Sharon Shahaf, and members of the Precarious Labor Organization, JCMS (formerly Cinema Journal 59, no. 14, Summer 2020.
"Invisible Memories: Black Feminist Literature and its Affective Flights." A Feel for the Text: Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice. Ed. Stephen Ahern. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
"El otro Francisco," "Cosmorama," and "Muerte al invasor." A Cuban Cinema Companion , Eds. Sean O'Reilly, Salvador Murguia, and Amanda Eaton McMenamin. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
SCMS Board & Committee Service
Board of Directors, PLO Representative, 2022-Present
Member, Program Committee, 2023 and 2024
Co-Chair, Caucus on Class, 2016-2021
Contact
Western Washington University
English Department
516 High Street - MS 9055
Bellingham, WA 98225
roger29@wwu.edu
Instagram: @jamierogersa
