HR job title
- Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Contact Info
- 1 979 4587082
- ORCiD
- 0000-0002-9912-8463
Garritano, Carmela Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
A background in African area studies undergirds my research on African media and film under globalization, with a specialization in Ghana. cultural production. I have written on commercial movies from Ghana and Nigeria (Nollywood); African literature, and African cinema. My current book project, tentatively titled African Energy Worlds: African Cinema of the Anthropocene, puts energy humanities scholarship in conversation with African film and media and aims to orient readers to methods of analysis centered on the materialities and infrastructures of energy. I am more and more interested in engaging with energy and environmental sciences to make a case for the significance of humanities scholarship in addressing the urgent crisis caused by catastrophic climate warming, the worst effects of which are lived by people in the global South.
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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Garritano, C.
(2022).
Scripting Shame in African Literature. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
65(3), E6-E7.
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Garritano, C.
(2021).
Email Scams, Nollywood Movies, and the New African Literary Novel: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance in the Post-Global Age. Research in African Literatures.
51(4), 18-35.
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Garritano, C.
(2020).
Rosine Mbakam, director. The Two Faces of a Bamilk Woman. 2016. 76 min. French and Bamilk, with English subtitles. Cameroon and France. Icarus Films. $348. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
63(1), e40-e42.
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Garritano, C.
(2020).
Fueling automobility: thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms's Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies.
32(1), 80-84.
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Garritano, C.
(2020).
The Entrepreneurial Feminist Subject of New Screen Media from Ghana: Labor, Pleasure, and Power. South Central Review.
37(2-3), 4-15.
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Garritano, C.
(2020).
Waiting on the Past: African Uranium Futures in Arlit, Deuxieme Paris. MFS Modern Fiction Studies.
66(1), 122-140.
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Garritano, C.
(2019).
Living Precariously in the African Postcolony: Debt and Labor Relations in the Films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. 58(2), 23-45.
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Anthony, A., Skadegrd Thorsen, T. S., Christiansen, S. L., & Garritano, C.
(2018).
Reviews. Screen Bodies.
3(1), 109-120.
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Garritano, C.
(2017).
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NOLLYWOOD STUDIES. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
60(2), 221-226.
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Garritano, C.
(2017).
Female Narratives in Nollywood Melodramas. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
60(2), 221-226.
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Garritano, C.
(2017).
Nollywood Stars: Media and Migration in West Africa and the Diaspora. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
60(2), 221-226.
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Garritano, C.
(2017).
The Materiality of Genre: Analog and Digital Ghosts in Video Movies from Ghana. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.
4(2), 191-206.
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Garritano, C.
(2017).
Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
60(2), 221-226.
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Garritano, C.
(2016).
Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals. Research in African Literatures.
47(3), 189-191.
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Garritano, C.
(2015).
The Conscript: A Novel of Libyas Anticolonial War. Northeast African Studies.
15(1), 202-205.
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Garritano, C.
(2014).
Close-Up: Nollywood-A Worldly Creative Practice Introduction: Nollywood-An Archive of African Worldliness. Black Camera: a micro journal of black film studies.
5(2), 44-52.
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Garritano, C.
(2014).
Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
57(3), 234-238.
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Garritano, C.
(2012).
King Ampaw: Traveling by Lorry. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
55(2), 175-179.
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Garritano, C.
(2008).
Contesting authenticities: the emergence of local video production in Ghana. Critical Arts: a south-north journal of cultural and media studies.
22(1), 21-48.
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Garritano, C.
(2005).
Franoise Pfaff, ed. Focus on African Films. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 327 pp. Photographs. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
48(2), 179-181.
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Garritano, C., Barlet, O., & Turner, C.
(2003).
African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
46(1), 215-216.
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Garritano, C.
(2003).
Troubled men and the women who create havoc: Four recent films by West African filmmakers. Research in African Literatures.
34(3), 159-165.
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Garritano, C. J.
(1997).
At an intersection of humanism and postmodernism: A feminist reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's 'Call me Woman'. Research in African Literatures.
28(2), 57-65.
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Garritano, C.
(2022).
Scripting Shame in African Literature. African Studies Review: the journal of the African Studies Association.
65(3), E6-E7.
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book
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
African Video Movies and Global Desires A Ghanaian History. Ohio University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
African Video Movies and Global Desires A Ghanaian History. Ohio University Press.
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chapter
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Harrow, K. W., & Garritano, C.
(2018).
Introduction. A Companion to African Cinema.
(pp. 1-20).
Wiley.
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Garritano, C.
(2017).
VIRTUAL ENCOUNTERS IN POSTCOLONIAL SPACES Nollywood movies about mobile telephony. Singh, J. G., & Kim, D. D. (Eds.),
POSTCOLONIAL WORLD.
(pp. 260-273).
Routledge.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
West African VideoMovies and Their Transnational Imaginaries. A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism.
(pp. 249-262).
Wiley.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
1: Mapping the Modern. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 24-60).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
2: Work, Women, and Worldly Wealth. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 61-90).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
3: Professional Movies and Their Global Aspirations. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 91-128).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
4: Tourism and Trafficking. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 129-153).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
5: Transcultural Encounters and Local Imaginaries. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 154-194).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
Films and Videos. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 217-224).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
Illustrations. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. ix-x).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
Introduction: African Popular Videos as GlobalCultural Forms. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 1-23).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2013).
Title Page, Copyright Page. African Video Movies and Global Desires.
(pp. 2-7).
Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2007).
Amma Darkos The Housemaid and the Gendering of Novel and Nation. Odamtten, V. O. (Eds.),
Broadening the Horizon Critical Introductions to Amma Darko.
(pp. 71-80).
Ayebia Clarke Pub..
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Garritano, C.
(2004).
Film and Literature (West Africa). Benson, E., & Conolly, L. W. (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English.
(pp. 509-511).
Routledge.
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Garritano, C.
(2003).
Video. Gikandi, S. (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of African Literature.
Routledge.
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Garritano, C.
(2000).
A Feminist Reading of Ellen Kuzwayos Call Me Woman. Gover, D., Conteh-Morgan, J., & Bryce, J. (Eds.),
The Post-colonial Condition of African Literature.
(pp. 49-66).
Africa World Press.
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Garritano, C.
(2000).
Restaging the Past: The Rewriting of the Tale of the Beautiful Daughter. Eke, M. N., Harrow, K. W., & Yewah, E. (Eds.),
African images recent studies and text in cinema.
(pp. 153-168).
Africa World Pr.
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Garritano, C.
(2000).
Women, Melodrama, and Political Critique: A Feminist Reading of Hostages, Dust to Dust, and True Confessions. Haynes, J. (Eds.),
Nigerian Video Films.
(pp. 165-191).
Ohio University Press.
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Harrow, K. W., & Garritano, C.
(2018).
Introduction. A Companion to African Cinema.
(pp. 1-20).
Wiley.
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conference paper
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Garritano, C.
(2000).
Restaging the past: The rewriting of The Tale of the Beautiful Daughter by Abrahams, Tutuola, Ogali and Aidoo. AFRICAN IMAGES: RECENT STUDIES AND TEXT IN CHINA.
153-168.
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Garritano, C.
(2000).
Restaging the past: The rewriting of The Tale of the Beautiful Daughter by Abrahams, Tutuola, Ogali and Aidoo. AFRICAN IMAGES: RECENT STUDIES AND TEXT IN CHINA.
153-168.
editor of
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book
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Harrow, K. W., & Garritano, C.
(2018).
A Companion to African Cinema
Harrow, K. W., & Garritano, C. (Eds.),
JOhn Wiley & Sons.
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Harrow, K. W., & Garritano, C.
(2018).
A Companion to African Cinema
Harrow, K. W., & Garritano, C. (Eds.),
JOhn Wiley & Sons.
Research
principal investigator on
- Arts & Humanities Fellow awarded by Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2020 - 2023
- Post-doctoral Grant awarded by West African Research Center - (Dakar, Senegal) 2009
- Dissertation/Scholar Award awarded by Fulbright Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States) 1999 - 2000
- FLAS awarded by Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States) 1997 - 1999
- Scholar Award awarded by Fulbright Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)
Teaching
teaching activities
- AFST205 Intro To Africana Lit Instructor
- AFST398 Africana Cinema Instructor
- AFST685 Directed Studies Instructor
- ENGL205 Intro To Africana Lit Instructor
- ENGL211 Foundations Cultural Studies Instructor
- ENGL251 Intro To Film Analysis Instructor
- FILM215 Global Cinema Instructor
- FILM251 Intro To Film Analysis Instructor
- FILM299 History Of Film Instructor
- FILM398 Africana Cinema Instructor
- INTA216 World Cinema & Int Politics Instructor
- INTS201 Intro To Ints Instructor
- INTS205 Current Issues Intl Stud Instructor
- INTS211 Foundations Cultural Studies Instructor
- INTS215 Global Cinema Instructor
- INTS300 International Experience:in-ab Instructor
- INTS409 Culture Neolib Globalism Instructor
- INTS481 Hnr-seminar Instructor
- INTS484 Internship: In-ab Instructor
- INTS485 Directed Studies Instructor
- INTS489 Sptp: En & Env Of Afr Lit &flm Instructor
- INTS491 Research Instructor
- INTS497 Hnr-independent Honors Study Instructor
- LBAR181 Fr Seminar Liberal Arts Instructor
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in English with certificate in Africana Studies, Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States) 2001
- M.A. in English, Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States) 1999
- B.A., University of Notre Dame - (Notre Dame, Indiana, United States) 1990
awards and honors
- First Book Award, conferred by African Literature Association - (Geneva, New York, United States), 2015
Contact
first name
- Carmela
has last name
- Garritano
mailing address
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Texas A&M University
4220 TAMU
College Station, TX 77847
USA
Other
In the News
- cgarritano@tamu.edu