Borderline
Violent Passions
in the Racial Borderlands of Post-War Europe:
A Screening and Panel Discussion of Borderline ,
a 1930 film featuring Paul Robeson and H.D.

Sponsored by:
The Border Studies Research Circle , the English Department,
and the Departments of Afro-American Studies, Communication Arts, and Comparative Literature
Monday, November 23, 1998
State Historical Society, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Panelists

· Sandra Adell is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies with a doctorate in Comparative Literature and a specialist in twentieth-century African American and Caribbean literature, theory, and culture. Her publications include Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth Century Black Literature , the African American Culture volume of the Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture , and numerous essays in journals such as Diacritics , Transition , and Comparative Literature Studies . She is currently working on a new book titled Spotlights on Center Stage: Black Performers at the University of Wisconsin .

· Keith Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature with a specialization in modern French, Anglo-American and Latin American literature, theory, and film. He is the author of Film and Fiction: The Dynamics of Exchange and the editor of Writing in a Film Age . He is currently engaged in research on Caribbean poetics in addition to his ongoing work on narrative and the relation of film and literature.

· Susan Stanford Friedman is the Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Women's Studies and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. She is the author of Psyche Reborn: The Emergence of H.D. , Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H.D.'s fiction and editor of Signets: Reading H.D. and Joyce: The Return of the Repressed . Her most recent book has just appeared, entitled Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter , and she is currently completing an edition of H.D.'s letters written during her analysis with Freud.

· Kristin Thompson is an Honorary Fellow in the Communication Arts Department. She has done extensive research on the European avant-silent cinema of the late silent period. Among her many books is Breaking the Glass Armour: Neoformalist Film Analysis and Storytelling in the New Hollywood , forthcoming from Harvard University Press.