Jennifer M. Wilks, Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, will join for a post-film Q&A.

Part historical epic and part Brechtian folly, Mauritanian‑born French director, producer, screenwriter, and actor Med Hondo’s film traces four centuries of French colonialism across the West Indies, Europe, and the Middle Passage, all staged on a wooden slave ship constructed in an abandoned Citroën factory.

Featuring a pop-up shop on June 20. This film’s book pairing, 1970—2018 Interviews with Med Hondo, is available for purchase at Alienated Majesty Books, in-person or online.

ABOUT JENNIFER M. WILKS
Jennifer M. Wilks is an associate professor of English, African & African Diaspora Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies. Her latest book, Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera’s Most Famous Character (Oxford UP, 2024), is a cultural history of Carmen adaptations set in African diasporic contexts. Her previous book, Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: (LSU P, 2008), explores the gendered legacies of the Harlem Renaissance and Negritude. At UT, Wilks has been recognized at the department, college, and university levels for her teaching. She is a member of the Texas Book Festival Board of Advisors and the Austin Opera Board of Trustees.