Public Lecture: Awam Ampka

Cowles
Visiting Scholar Awam Amkpa teaches at New York University and is the former Senior
Lecturer of Drama and Television at King Alfred's University College,
Winchester, England, and Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Mount Holyoke
College. He is the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires,
London: Routledge, 2003 and forthcoming Archetypes,
Stereotypes and Polytypes: Theatres of the Black Atlantic. Ampka is the director
of film documentaries such as Winds
Against Our Souls, It's All About Downtown, National Images and Transnational
Desires, and the feature film Wazobia!
He has authored several articles in books and journals on Modernisms in
Theatre, Postcolonial theatre, Black Atlantic Issues, and Film studies.

Barker Center for Dance, Studio 100 500 21st Avenue SouthMinneapolis MN  55455 

--"Continuously Rich: Black Women
in Cultural Production" has been made possible by the National Endowment
for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces:  Three Centuries of Artistic Genius and the University of
Minnesota Dance Program Cowles Land Grant Chair Visiting Artist and Scholar
Fund.