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Barbara Mennel
Ph.D Cornell University
Germanic Studies
mennel@ufl.edu
352-392-2101 ext. 215
Expertise
19th and 20th century German literature and culture, feminist theory and queer studies, international cinema
Biography
Assistant Professor Barbara Mennel holds a joint appointment in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies 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 transnational cinematic practices, feminist and queer theory, minority cultural production in Germany, and the intersection of urban studies and cinema studies. In 2002-2003, she was a member of the Beatrice M. Bain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published in Camera Obscura, Germanic Review, Modern Austrian Literature, New German Critique, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, and Women in German Yearbook. She is also the book review editor for Germanic Review. She is author of The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature (2007), and Cities and Cinema (forthcoming April 2008). Her current projects are a co-edited volume with Jaimey Fisher, tentatively entitled Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literature and Visual Culture, a survey Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys, and a research project on Turkish-German cinema.
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