Caroline Eades receives Residency Fellowship at the Camargo Foundation

Eades will use the residency to advance her project on "Habib Benglia: An Invisible and Omnipresent Figure of the Other in French Cinema"

Dr. Caroline Eades, an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies and French, has won the prestigious Residency Fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Dr. Eades will spend time at the Camargo Foundation during the Spring 2023 semester. The residency will support her current research project, "Habib Benglia: An Invisible and Omnipresent Figure of the Other in French Cinema," which consists in examining the contributions of the first actor of African origin in French Cinema and puts Benglia's career in parallel with the history of live performance and modern theater on the French stage from 1912 to 1960.