Founding-Director, Audiovisual Media Lab for the study of cultures and societies
Office: 507, 60 University
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 2985
E-mail: lamacs@uOttawa.ca - amlacs@uottawa.ca
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Office: 204, 556 King Edward Avenue
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 3826
E-mail: b.debberi@uOttawa.ca
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
University degrees
1996 – Certificate in Creative Writing (Film production), Université du Québec à Montréal
1998 – BA in Film Studies, Université de Montréal
1999 – MA in Film Studies, Université de Montréal
2003 – PhD in Communication (Cultural Studies), Concordia University
Fields of interest
- Film and cultural studies
- African and national cinemas
- Oral tradition in multi-cultural nations
- 'Intermediality' in mass-media’s cultural representation
- The relationship between mass media, culture and naturalized ideology
- Cultural history and cultural memory
Ongoing funded research
(1) Rhyzomic Practices of Identity in Indy Cinemas: A Comparative Analysis. This research focuses on the articulations of cultural and racial identity, represented in ‘indy’ films produced in Canada, Australia, and South Africa; focusing specifically on particular cultures or identity-group formations that have faced various forms of colonialism. (SSHRC: 2007-2010)
(2) Historical Amnesia: The Promised Land. The Promised Land Project is a cultural and historical investigation, focusing on the contribution of 19th-century black pioneers’ in Chatham and Dawn settlements; and the role this multicultural group of blacks played to end slavery and for Civil Rights in Canada, the United States and abroad (SSHRC: 2007-2012)
Selected publications
Books
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (2006) Mapping Alternative Expressions of Blackness in Cinema. Bayreuth (Germany): Bayreuth African Studies Series 80. 250pp.DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (Accepted, under proofreading) Au-delà discours l’expérience du “Verbe” dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire (Beyond Discourses: The Experience of the “Verb” in Black African Cinemas). Québec: Laval University Press (about 250pp).
Edited volumes
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (2006) (Series Editor). Introduction to Media Studies: A Reader. Toronto: Oxford University Press (628pp).
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (Sous la direction de), Écritures dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire, in CINÉMAS, Vol. 11(1). 2000. (180pp).
Contribution in book chapters
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (2005), “Intermedial Location of Meaning in Muna Moto: A Metalanguage of Cultural Discourse” in Alexie Tcheuyap (ed.) Cinema and Social Discourses in Cameroon, Bayreuth (Germany): African Studies Series, (pp. 63-82).
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (Accepted). « De Mossane au Wazzou Polygame : Fatalité d'une esthétique a-logique et condition féminine », in Marie-Ange Somdah (ed.) Cinémas des femmes d’Afrique. Paris : L’Harmattan.
Papers
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA. “Africanicity in Black Cinema: A Conjunctural Ground for New Expressions of Identity” in Cultural Studies in Africa / African Cultural Studies. The Journal of Cultural Studies (Keyan G. Tomaseli and Hendel K. Wright, Guest Eds.) London/New York: Routledge (Vol. 22(2), 2008 (pp. In press)
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA. “The ‘Semeiotic’ of Africanicity in Gaston Kaboré’s Buud Yam” in Burkina Faso: Emerging Literature and Artistic Creation (A. Bissiri, S. Sanou, and H. Wilemse, Eds.). TYDSKRIF VIR LETTERKUNDE. South Africa: University of Pretoria Press (pp.98-109).
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA “Critical Review Essay and Interview” Narratology and Text: Subjectivity and Identity in New France" (Paul Perron, University of Toronto Press, 338p.) in The American Journal of Semiotics (J. Brent and J. Deely, eds.), New York: The Semiotic Society of America. (Vol 21) 2006 (pp.120-129).
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA. “The New Practices of Memory: The Case of Indy Media and Indigenous People Council of Biocolonialism.” In Re:Activism. Budapest: Budapest European University of Technology.
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (mars 2005), « Une Rencontre plus que musicale : Bona, Lokua, Toto. Une méditation des rencontres des musiques et l’hybridation » in Cahiers Critiques. Africultures.
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (Oct. 2001) « Africanité: Au-delà du discours académique, une réalité ». in Olivier Barlet (Ed.) Cahiers Critiques d’Africultures (Special Issue), No. 41. Paris: L’Harmattan, (pp.80-81).
DE B’BÉRI BOULOU EBANDA (Fall 2000), ‘‘Volume’s Introduction" & “Tactiques scripturaires dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire”. in Écritures dans les cinémas d’Afrique noire, CINEMAS, Vol.11, No.1, (pp.1-30).
Creative activities
2001 – Director/Producer. Looking for my Pygmalion: Memories, 52-mns. Poetical-documentary about the question of being Black in Québec.
1996 – Artistic-Director. Tue-Tête (4-mn. Fiction, 16mm.) The choice of a teenager facing a dilemma: life or hard-drugs).