Dent, Jerome P.

Jerome P. Dent Jr. was born in Los Angeles, attended the University of California–Irvine and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature and African American studies. He also attended Mount St. Mary’s University and graduated with a Master of Arts in humanities. He began his doctoral studies in visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester in 2014. He was awarded the Provost Fellowship and Slattery Fellowship in 2014, and the Celeste Hughes Bishop Award in 2016. He was also awarded a Flaherty Fellowship in 2016 and a Black Film Center/Archive Research Fellowship in 2018. During the 2019-2020 academic year, he held a position as a visiting assistant professor of Africana studies at Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, New York. He pursued his research in visual and cultural studies under the direction of Sharon Willis.