Dr Zélie Asava is the author of Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Peter Lang, 2013). Her work addresses the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in Irish, French, Francophone African and US cinema. She is a board member of Screen Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, French Screen Studies, Catalyst International Film Festival and the arts magazine Unapologetic.
Zélie has appeared as a contributor on RTE TV News, Radio One, Lyric FM, Al Araby TV and Newstalk. Over the past 20 years, she has held teaching and research positions at UCD, TCD, DkIT and IADT, and given keynotes at various international conferences and film festivals. Prior to academia, she worked as an MP’s caseworker, in EDI consultancy, as a freelance journalist and in stage/screen acting.
Zélie currently works as an independent scholar, consultant and classifier.
Dr Zélie Asava is the author of Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (Bloomsbury, 2017) and The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Peter Lang, 2013). Her work addresses the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in Irish, French, Francophone African and US cinema. She is a board member of Screen Ireland, the Irish Film Institute, French Screen Studies, Catalyst International Film Festival and the arts magazine Unapologetic.
Zélie has appeared as a contributor on RTE TV News, Radio One, Lyric FM, Al Araby TV and Newstalk. Over the past 20 years, she has held teaching and research positions at UCD, TCD, DkIT and IADT, and given keynotes at various international conferences and film festivals. Prior to academia, she worked as an MP’s caseworker, in EDI consultancy, as a freelance journalist and in stage/screen acting.
Zélie currently works as an independent scholar, consultant and classifier.
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