Rate My Professor Danyelle Greene

Greene’s research and teaching interests encompass the study and production of African American cinema, documentary filmmaking, and aesthetics, with emphasis on the politics of representation and re-presentation of blackness, gender, and religion in film. She utilizes filmmaking and written scholarship as complementary methods of critical inquiry to center Black voices and communities. Her work has been published in Black Camera and the Journal of Popular Culture, including “Illuminating Shadowed Histories: Centering Black Women’s Activism in Selma” (2019) and “In the Church House and on the Big Screen: Valuing Black Aesthetic Traditions in Sweet Jesus, Preacher Man” (2019). Greene co-directed the art exhibition In My Hands, featuring her co-produced video installation Twice As Hard and triptych Always Already. Current projects include the nonfiction film Documenting Twice as Hard: Black Hair is Political, a documentary about her 92-year-old grandmother, and a planned film interviewing Black individuals on defining blackness. At FAU, she teaches RTV 3531 Video Production and FIL 4930 Short Form Nonfiction Production, viewing teaching as a mutual learning process.