Yue is assistant professor of culture and media at The New School; coeditor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture; and a regular contributor to Film Comment and other publications

“The films of Mati Diop conjure faraway places. Characters both fictional and quasi-documentary long for locales beyond their reach, or sometimes, as if in a trance, they drift magnetically toward them. No matter where the films take place, there is always the specter of somewhere else, and, perhaps with it, the possibility of a different life”(Genevieve Yue). In Atlantiques, a young man from Dakar reveals to some friends his dreams for a better life in Europe; Big Vietnam depicts the filming of an adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons in Marseille; and Snow Canon is a sensual coming-of-age story loosely based on Stendahl's short story "Vanina Vanini."