Danielle B. Schwartz is a Ph.D. student in the English department at Binghamton University specializing in the intersections of transnational film studies, gender, race, and neoliberalism. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in English, both from Michigan State University. Her research interests include hard-to-place cinema that transcends the boundaries of the local and the global, intersectionality and Black feminism, and decolonial methodologies. She also has a background in American, female-centric teen films spanning from the 1980s to the early 2000s. For her fellowship project, Danielle plans to create a public space for SUNY Binghamton cinema students, local residents, and cinephiles from the greater Binghamton area to screen and discuss film. She hopes to build a forum for critical dialogues focused on issues central to the Binghamton community, the university, and the globe as a way of facilitating empathy.
