The author of "'A Poetics of Refusals': Neorealism from Italy to Africa," forthcoming in Radical Fantasy: Italian Neorealism's Afterlife in Global Cinema, she has recently completed From Split to Screened Selves: Francophone Autobiography in the Third Person, a study of French and Francophone African experiments in literary and filmic autobiography. She is currently writing a history of documentary filmmaking in West Africa from the colonial period to the present.