Professor Barbara Mennel
Ph.D., Cornell University
- 4219 Turlington Hall (English)
- mennel@ufl.edu
- 352.294.2820
- Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Office Hours — Fall 2023
- On sabbatical Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
Areas of Interest
Film studies, feminist theory, European cinema, urban studies and film, miniatures.
Biography
Professor Barbara Mennel holds a joint appointment in the German Studies section of LLC and in the English Department where she is associated with the Film and Media Studies Program and the Feminisms, Genders, & Sexualities Track. Her research interests include miniatures, transnational cinematic practices, feminist and queer theory, and the intersection of urban studies and film studies. At UF, she has been awarded the University of Florida Foundation Research Professorship (2018-21) and the Waldo W. Neikirk Professorship (2014-21). She is author of six books: Mädchen in Uniform (BFI Film Classics Series with Bloomsbury, 2024), Su Friedrich (University of Illinois Press, 2023), Women at Work in Twenty-first Century European Cinema (University of Illinois Press, 2019), Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys (Wallflower and Columbia University Press, 2012, translated into French), Cities and Cinema (Routledge, revised edition 2019, translated into Chinese), and The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature (Palgrave, 2007). With Angelica Fenner she co-edited a special volume of Feminist German Studies entitled The Singular Plural of Feminist Film Practice in 2022. With Jaimey Fisher she co-edited the volume Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literature and Visual Culture(opens in new tab) (Brill, 2010) and with Sabine Hake the collection Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens (Berghahn, 2012). During the academic year 2016-17, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie FCFP Senior Fellow at FRIAS, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study in Freiburg, Germany, and from 2017-2023, she directed the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
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