Sheila J. Nayar is the author of two books on the subject of orality, literacy, and narrative, _Cinematically Speaking: The Orality-Literacy Paradigm for Visual Narrative_, and _The Sacred and the Cinema: Reconfiguring the "Genuinely" Religious Film
...MoreSheila J. Nayar is the author of two books on the subject of orality, literacy, and narrative, _Cinematically Speaking: The Orality-Literacy Paradigm for Visual Narrative_, and _The Sacred and the Cinema: Reconfiguring the "Genuinely" Religious Film_, as well as numerous essays, including in the journals _PMLA_, _JAAR_, _Film Quarterly_, and _Visual Anthropology_. She has also published essays on oral narrativity and _Beowulf_; on the intersections of aesthetics and alphabetically literate norms of narrative; and on orality and early African-American slave narratives. Currently, she is writing a book, Pre-Lit., which pulls from the above, and which is intended for non-academic audiences.
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New Directions in the Humanities
