Spring 2024 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, performing and media arts
Rejoice Abutsa is a writer, curator, film producer, and Ph.D. student in the Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Her research focuses on neo-Nollywood films, with attention to how digitality, gender, labor, and transnationality sculpt its industrial dynamics and contact with the global Black diaspora. Abutsa has worked on multiple Nollywood films currently streaming on global platforms and has interviewed some of its top filmmakers, as well as curated Nollywood across diverse regions.