Greg Burris
About
Greg Burris is an associate professor in residence of visual communication at Northwestern University in Qatar and the author of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Temple University, 2019). Before coming to Doha, he was director of the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut, a research fellow at both the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam, and a Fulbright fellowship recipient in Istanbul. He obtained his doctorate in film and media studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also holds degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Greg’s research and teaching are focused on the intersections of cinema, race, and emancipatory politics. His writings have appeared in such venues as CineAction, Cinema Journal, Current Affairs, Film International, Film Quarterly, The Guardian, Jadaliyya, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Middle East Eye, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and the anthologies Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso, 2017), Global Raciality: Empire, PostColoniality, DeColoniality (Routledge, 2018), and Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2020). His current writing project focuses on Palestine and the battlefield of time.
