Rate My Professor Danyelle Greene

Danyelle Greene serves as an Assistant Professor in Communications at Florida Atlantic University in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies within the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. A scholar-practitioner, she earned her Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of Kansas in 2021, a master’s degree in Media Studies and Mass Communication from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Arts from Adrian College in Michigan. Her path into academia was shaped by undergraduate mentors and participation in the Ronald E. McNair Program from the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to FAU, Greene held visiting instructor positions at Boston University and the University of Georgia, where she designed courses on Black religion and film and Black TV comedy. Her dissertation research focused on depictions of Black Christianity in African American films.

Greene’s research and teaching interests encompass the study and production of African American cinema, documentary filmmaking, and aesthetics, with emphasis on the politics of representation and re-presentation of blackness, gender, and religion in film. She utilizes filmmaking and written scholarship as complementary methods of critical inquiry to center Black voices and communities. Her work has been published in Black Camera and the Journal of Popular Culture, including “Illuminating Shadowed Histories: Centering Black Women’s Activism in Selma” (2019) and “In the Church House and on the Big Screen: Valuing Black Aesthetic Traditions in Sweet Jesus, Preacher Man” (2019). Greene co-directed the art exhibition In My Hands, featuring her co-produced video installation Twice As Hard and triptych Always Already. Current projects include the nonfiction film Documenting Twice as Hard: Black Hair is Political, a documentary about her 92-year-old grandmother, and a planned film interviewing Black individuals on defining blackness. At FAU, she teaches RTV 3531 Video Production and FIL 4930 Short Form Nonfiction Production, viewing teaching as a mutual learning process.