Drip Like Coffee: Black Queer Storytelling... by Profs. Cisco and Pena
Full Title: "Drip Like Coffee: Black Queer Storytelling & Worldbuilding" presented by Dartmouth College Professors Anaiis Cisco and Mary Pena
Join us as Professors Cisco and Pena explore themes of desire, space & aesthetics in film.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Anaiis Cisco is an award-winning filmmaker and assistant professor of moving image production. Cisco develops narratives that explore the emotional and internal journeys of Black and queer characters, navigating complex story worlds. Her works have screened at numerous festivals and won an array of awards including a 2018 Princess Grace Award, a 2021 Finalist Award in Film for the Mass Cultural Council, and a 2021-2022 Mellon Faculty of Color Working Group fellowship.
Mary Pena is a Mellon Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Pena’s work explores intersections of race and gender, visual and material culture, urban ecology, embodiment, and Afro-diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her current book project examines the politics and aesthetics of spatial change in Puerto Plata, an Atlantic port city in the Dominican Republic. From 2022–25, Pena co-curated a three-part exhibition series centered on land, space, and aesthetics in relation to Afrolatinidad and served on the curatorial team for Coastal Relations: Enacting Diaspora at the Avery Research Center. Their publications have appeared in Fieldsights on Cultural Anthropology, entanglements, Open Cultural Studies, Absinthe Journal, and the edited volume Gender: Space.
