Anna Everett is a Professor of Film & Media Studies. Dr. Everett works in the fields of film and TV history/theory, African-American film and culture, and Digital Media Technologies. She is the author of Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 (Duke Univ. Press, 2001) and is currently at work on a book titled Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace.