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Jerry Philogene

Jerry Philogene is filling a sabbatical replacement position in American Studies untill the end of the Spring, 2005, semester. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies Program at New York University. She lectures on topics related to African American and Afro Caribbean culture, diaspora, race, and migration. Her academic work examines the interrelationships of the visual arts and cultural and racial identity formation within the Afro Caribbean Diaspora She has taught African American 20th century art history and 20th century Afro Caribbean art and cultural history at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
She is currently writing her dissertation, National Narratives, Caribbean Memories and Diasporic Identities: Haitian and Jamaican Art (working title) which examines the interrelation between the visual arts and cultural identity formation. It incorporates historical and cultural analyses in an attempt to explore the political and social structures that have been central in the construction of Afro Caribbean visual arts as well as how the complexities of Caribbean diasporic culture have augmented the descriptions of black visual aesthetics.
Ms. Philogene is also an independent curator. She has co-curated several exhibitions including Family, Fission and Fusion: Contemporary Haitian and Dominican Artists and The Fourth Dimension: Unfolding the Personal. She was the exhibition coordinator on Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain: 1966-1996 exhibited at the Caribbean Cultural Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Ms. Philogene has also produced artists' video projects including Paul Gardere: Recent Works 1995-1998 for the Jersey City Museum and a video interview with novelist Edwidge Danticat for SOS: Haiti, a new York-based public access television program.

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