Michelle Baroody holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota. Her research and teaching interests include archival studies, film history and theory, and Arab American studies. She has worked with Mizna’s Arab Film Festival from 2012 to 2020 in various capacities: as curator, director, coordinator, and volunteer. She has programmed several Arab and Arab American film series and screenings in the Twin Cities, and she is a board member at the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis and co-editor of the Trylon’s blog, Perisphere. She currently teaches Social Studies at The Blake School in Minneapolis. Her scholarship, pedagogy, and programming rethink how the production, collection, exhibition, and international circulation of Arab/Arab American film and literary texts mediate the representation of Arab/Arab American life.