Jordache Ellapen

Program: Ph.D.

Email: jellapen@indiana.edu

Previous Degrees: MA Cinema Studies (New York University, MA Dramatic Art (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), BA Dramatic Art (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Areas of Study: Gender and sexuality, Culture

Research interests: My current research is concerned with analyzing the construction of Indian identity in South Africa since 1994, through various visual arts practices (cinema, photography, fine art, literature).

I am also interested in migration, intimacy and desire. My next visual arts project is an archival project invested in reading the traces of “queerness” through the archive

Honors:Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (2006-2008); Mellon Postgraduate Mentorship Program (2009-2010)

 

Book Chapters:

Introduction (co-authored with Jyoti Mistry). In: we remember differently (forthcoming 2010, Editors Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen, UNISA Press). 

The Indian Diaspora and the White Imaginary (in Critical Dialogue with Jyoti Mistry). In: we remember differently (forthcoming 2010, Editors Jyoti Mistry and Jordache A. Ellapen, UNISA Press). 

“Nollywood’s Transportability : The Politics and economics of video film as cultural product” (co-authored with Jyoti Mistry) In: Nollywood and Beyond: Transnational Dimensions of the African Video Industry (forthcoming, Editors: Prof. Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome, Indiana University Press).

Journal Articles:

‘The Cinematic Township: Cinematic Representations of the township space and who can claim the rights to representation in post-apartheid South African cinema’
(Journal of African Cultural Studies, Volume 19, Number 1, June 2007, pp. 113-137).

Exhibitions:
Short Film: cane/cain (2011) directed by Jordache A. Ellapen
Premièred at the 2011 Durban International Film Festival in July 2011.      
Screened at the Wits Arts and Literature Experience (WALE) in May 2011.
Screened at ALWAN for the Arts, New York City in August 2011.