Jordache A. Ellapen

Jordache A. Ellapen is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and visual artist who works at the intersections of visual culture studies, race and racial formations, and gender, sexuality, and queer studies. He is the co-editor of the book we remember differently: Race, Memory, Imagination (UNISA Press, 2012). He has also published and has forthcoming articles in the Journal for African Cultural Studies,Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, and Black Camera: An International Film Journal. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Against Afronormativity: Queering Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa, which examines the shifting nature of blackness in post-apartheid South Africa through the perspective of black and brown women and queer artists. His visual works, which include the short film cane/cain and photographic project “Queering the Archive: Brown Bodies in Ecstasy,” have been screened and exhibited in South Africa and abroad.