Sally Shafto is an interdisciplinary film scholar and specialist of the French New Wave, Maghrebi cinema, and international art cinema. She has taught at several colleges and universities in the United States, France, and Morocco. In 2007 she published the first monograph on the so-called Zanzibar films (The Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of May 1968, Paris Expérimental, 2007). She is active as a translator. Her book translations include the Writings of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Sequence Press, 2016) and Jean-Michel Frodon’s The World of Jia Zhangke (The Film Desk, 2021). Her translation of Chris Marker’s early writings on film (1948–1955) is forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press (ed. Steven Ungar). Two of her articles on Godard have just been reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 509.
