Julius Aderogba Odewabi is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies with a concentration in French at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his bachelor's degree at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. He then proceeded to a master's degree at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, in 2023, and a second master's degree in French and Francophone studies at the University of Florida, USA, in 2024. His research lies at the intersection of African and Francophone film and media studies, environmental humanities, transnational media, and digital culture. He is particularly interested in how African and diasporic audiovisual media negotiate the afterlives of colonialism, environmental change, extractivism, migration, technology, and questions of cultural representation.