Jennifer Bajorek

Jennifer Bajorek is a scholar and curator working at the intersection of literature, art, and media, with a linguistic and cultural focus on French and Francophone worlds and a geographic focus on contemporary Africa. Her latest book, Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa (Duke University Press, 2020, on photography and its histories in Senegal and Benin, represents over a dozen years of collaboration with artists, curators, and museum and heritage professionals in West Africa. Her new research looks at representations of migrants and migration in contemporary Europe. She is currently Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Visual Studies and Dean of Humanities & Arts at Hampshire College. Since 2013, she has also been a Research Associate in the VIAD Research Centre in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

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