Sheril Antonio

Dr. Sheril Antonio is an Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she also serves as Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives. She is the author of Contemporary African American Cinema (2001) and other works including a feature essay for Black Camera, “The Urban-Rural Binary in Black American Film and Culture” (Indiana University Press, 2009); “New Black Cinema: When Self-Empowerment Becomes Assimilation” (Bertz Verland, 2006); and “Matriarchs, Rebels, Adventurers, and Survivors: Renditions of Black Womanhood in Contemporary African American Cinema” (Sight & Sound Supplement, July 2005). Her last published work was a co-author with Gail Segal of the book Dramatic Effects with a Movie Camera (Bloomsbury Press, 2021). Dr. Antonio currently teaches The Anatomy of Difference: The Other in Film/Media. She received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in 2020 from NYU. She was a keynote speaker for Lincoln Center Education Summer Forum and served for many years on the Board of the Ghetto Film School where she is now on the Emeritus Board.