Kenneth W. Harrow is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University. His work focuses on African cinema and literature. He is the author of Thresholds of Change in African Literature (1993), Less Than One and Double: A Feminist Reading of African Women's Writing (2001), Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (2007), Trash! A Study of African Cinema Viewed from Below (2013), and Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes (2022). He also co-edited, with Carmela Garritano, A Companion to African Film (2018).