College of Humanities People
Melissa Crum, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of African American and African Studies: http://aaas.osu.edu/
Office Information
486 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: crum.88@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-3700
486 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: crum.88@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-3700
Education:
BA University of Florida in Visual Art Studies 2000-2004 __________________________________________________________________ MA African American and African Studies & Minor in Digital Animation 2004- present
General Background:
Melissa Crum is interested in how short and feature-length animations’ methods of portraying African-Americans in early cinema parallel those employed in contemporary animation practices and idea from the Enlightenment period of the 17th and 18th centuries. Grounded in the theory of affect, these limited animated portrayals of “blackness” perpetuated the stereotypical cinematic blueprint of African-Americans and Africans. Her research suggests that there are basic formulas still in existence in feature-length animation via anthropomorphic characters.
