Photography & Imaging
Jennifer Bajorek
Adjunct Instructor
Phone: 212 998 1930
Office: 721 Broadway, 8th Floor |
Biography
Jennifer Bajorek writes and does research on diverse topics in literature and philosophy and in the history and theory of photography. Her publications include
Counterfeit Capital (Stanford, 2009); an edition and translation of the literary and political theory of Jean Paulhan (Illinois, 2008); translations of philosophical texts by Sarah Kofman, Bernard Stiegler, and Jacques Derrida; and essays in
Critical Inquiry, Diacritics, the Autograph ABP newspaper, and
History of Photography. Most recently, she was co-editor of a special section of
Theory, Culture & Society on
Photography and the State, and lead curator of
Contemporary Africa on Screen at the South London Gallery http://southlondongallery.org/page/contemporary-africa-on-screen. She is currently finishing a book on photography and political imagination in Senegal and Bénin and working on a series of ongoing practical projects, with Erin Haney, focused on arts and media platforms in Africa. She has taught at UC Berkeley and Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been a research fellow at Cornell, Rutgers, and Oxford universities.
