papers
“After the end of the world: Black radical alterity and the decolonizing of space and time in the speculative and the fantastic,” PhD dissertation, supervised by Prof. Manthia Diawara, New York University, 2023
“Space Race, or To the Moon and Black,” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Denver, CO, March 2023
“‘Once upon a time called Now’: Toward a New Black Surrealism,” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, March 2022
“Time-traveling while black: Chronotopic narratives of radical alterity,” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, March 2021
“‘For the female of the species is more deadly than the male’: Exhuming the trans temporal body of the black woman vampire in speculative art,” presented at Striking Back at Empire: Politicizing Media Genres, University of Pittsburgh, February 2021
“Time-traveling while black: Chronotopic narratives of radical alterity,” presented at (Im)possibility, Harvard University, October 2020
“Time-traveling while black: Chronotopic narratives of radical alterity,” presented at after[lives], New York University, February 2020
“Make your own neverland, Where interactive documentary meets lesbian porn,” presented at Where Is Cinema?, Columbia University, February 2019
“‘For the female of the species is more deadly than the male’: Exhuming the transtemporal body of the black woman vampire in speculative art,” presented at High/Low, University of California, Berkeley, February 2019
“Becoming other, becoming more: From radical dis/continuity to utopian fluidity in fictional transsexual auto/biography,” presented at Displacement, CUNY Graduate Center, November 2018
“Make your own neverland: Interactive documentary and lesbian porn,” presented at & Media, University of California, Berkeley, September 2016
“Opening the field: Interactively documenting the interactive documentary,” presented at Transformations I: Cinema & Media Studies Research Meets Digital Humanities Tools, New York University, April 2016
“Refusing the language of the father: Female silence as feminist resistance,” presented at Cinemania, Yale University, February 2016
“Baring the apparatus, or Unpacking the handheld and surveillant modes of modern horror,” presented at Contemporary Horrors: Destabilizing a Cinematic Genre, University of Chicago, April 2014
“Handheld horror: Home movies and surveillance culture in the modern horror film,” presented at Monstrous Media: Hybrids, Aberrations and Other Unclassifiables, New York University, February 2014
“From interactivity to immersion: New dimensions of the basic cinematographic apparatus,” MA honors dissertation, supervised by Prof. Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews, 2012
publications
Jasper Lauderdale, “Titane (Julia Ducournau, 2021, France),” in Screening Women Filmmakers, ed. Shelley Cobb, Dijana Jelača, and Maria San Filippo (London: Routledge, 2026), forthcoming
Jasper Lauderdale, “Becoming Other, Becoming More: Ontological Continuity in Fictional Feminist Transsexual Autobiography,” Screen Bodies vol. 8, no. 1 (2023), 82–96
Jasper Lauderdale, “‘There existed an addiction to blood’: Exhuming the Transtemporal Body,” Black Camera vol. 14, no. 2 (2023), 275–94
Jasper Lauderdale, “Make Your Own Neverland, Where Nonfiction Film Interacts with Lesbian Porn,” Synoptique vol. 9, no. 2 (2021), 238–45
Marina Hassapopoulou, with Donna Cameron, Cristina Cajulis, Da Ye Kim, Jasper Lauderdale, Eric Hahn, Pedro Cabello, Hojong Lee, Soyoung Elizabeth Yun, Kelsey Christensen, and Kate Anderson- Song, “Hacking the Digital Humanities: Critical Practice and DIY Pedagogy,” in The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities, ed. Eduardo Navas, Owen Gallagher, and xtine burrough (New York: Routledge, 2021), 473–87
film
Exquisite Corpse: Ted Joans (David Hammons, 2018), editor
Don’t Look Away II (Jasper Lauderdale, 2016)
Some Bright Morning (Lydie Diakhaté, 2015), editor
I Was There (Jasper Lauderdale, 2011)
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