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Ph.D - New York University, Cinema Studies, 2007
      Dissertation: "Significations of Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film"

M.A. - New York University, Cinema Studies, 1997

B.A. - Morehouse College, English, 1991

Professor Gillespie has previously taught at the New School in the  Department of Media Studies and Film, and 
at Duke University in the  Film and Video, African, and African American programs.

His research interests include film theory and aesthetics, film  blackness, visual and expressive culture, 
historiography, genre  studies, adaptation theory, hip hop modernism, free jazz, the Japanese  New Wave, 
Third Cinema, and the oeuvre of Todd Haynes, Spike Lee, Atom  Egoyan, and Claire  Denis.