Jennifer Blaylock is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies at Oberlin College. She is a film and media historian with research interests in audio-visual archives, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and African studies and is currently working on a postcolonial media archaeology book project that analyzes the history of discourse about new media technologies in Africa from the early twentieth century to the present. Her research can be found in Screen, Feminist Media Histories, boundary 2, and the Journal of African Cinemas. She holds a PhD in Film & Media Studies from University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.